Administering an ISP Installation

Transferring Content

The FrontPage Publish command transfers FrontPage content from one FrontPage-extended web server to another through HTTP. All of the functionality of installed FrontPage components is also transferred.

However, if you choose another method of publishing or transferring the content, such as FTP, Windows Copy command, or Site Server’s Content Deployment, the FrontPage components will not be functional until you run FrontPage Recalculate Web on the production Web server. This command enables the FrontPage Server Extensions on the production Web server to parse the content and to recognize FrontPage components. If the _vti directories from the source server are also copied by FTP, you may need to remove the FrontPage Server Extensions and reinstall them on the destination server.

Because the _vti directories contain server-specific information, transferring them from one server to another (by copying or replicating content) moves the configuration information from one server to a new server, where the information might not apply. If this happens, FrontPage will not work. Should you encounter this problem, remove and reinstall the Server Extensions on the new server.