Publish a web site

If your Internet service provider (ISP) has the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft installed, you can publish to the Web server using HTTP. Otherwise, you can use Microsoft FrontPage to publish your web site to an FTP server.

Note   If you publish to a location on your local computer, your web site will not have the full FrontPage functionality unless your computer is a server that has the server extensions or SharePoint Team Services installed.

Choose one of the following:

Publish to a Web server (HTTP)

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. In the Publish Destination dialog box, do one of the following:
   • Type the location of a Web server.
   • Click the arrow to select a location to which you have already published another web site.
   • Click Browse to find the publishing location.

   Note   If you have previously chosen a publishing destination for this web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear. Proceed to step 4.

3. Click OK.
4. Specify the pages you want to publish.

   How?

   1. In the Publish Web dialog box, click Options in the lower left corner.
   2. Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:
      • Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
      • Under Changes, specify how you want Microsoft FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.
      • If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, select that check box.
   3. Click OK.
5. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.
6. Click Publish.

   FrontPage publishes your web site to the Web server you specified. If you want to verify that your web site was successfully published, click the hyperlink that is displayed after the web has been published — your web browser will open to the site you just published.

   Note   If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Publish to an FTP server

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. In the Publish Destination dialog box type the location of the FTP server, or click the arrow to select a location to which you have already published another web site.

   Note   If you have previously chosen a publishing destination for this web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear. Proceed to step 4.

3. Click OK.
4. Specify the pages you want to publish.

   How?

   1. In the Publish Web dialog box, click Options in the lower left corner.
   2. Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:
      • Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
      • Under Changes, specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.
      • If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, select that check box.
   3. Click OK.
5. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.
6. Click Publish.

   FrontPage publishes your web site to the FTP server you specified.

   Note   If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Publish to a location on your local computer

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. In the Publish Destination dialog box, do one of the following:
   • Type the path — for example C:\My Website — to the folder on your file system.
   • Click Browse to locate the folder.

   Note   If you have previously chosen a publish destination for this web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear. Proceed to step 4.

3. Click OK.
4. Specify the pages you want to publish.

   How?

   1. In the Publish Web dialog box, click Options in the lower left corner.
   2. Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:
      • Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
      • Under Changes, specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.
      • If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, select that check box.
   3. Click OK.
5. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.
6. Click Publish.

Note   If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination folder.