FrontPage 98 & 2000 - Proxy Configuration in the Client Machine

• Go to Tools-->Options
• Click the "Proxies" tab
• Under "HTTP proxy" type your gateway machine IP like 192.168.0.1
• Tick the "Do not use proxy server for local intranet addresses" This is optional and will be helpful when you are previewing the pages locally.

Following information is contributed by a PPPshar user.

FRONT PAGE '98 and PPPshar

In the Gateway:

• Both PPPShar and FrontPage 98 use port 80 by default. You can change the FrontPage 98's configuration to any unused port (81, 8080 etc) it will work just as well.
  Ensure that FrontPage 98 is not currently running.
• Edit the file "\FrontPage Webs\server\conf\httpd.cnf".
• One of the first items in this file is the port number. Change this from 80, to one of your spare ports. If you are not sure, try 8080 or 81.
• Next, open "\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\FrontPage Server Administrator" Click on "uninstall" and follow directions.
• Next, click on "install", and when it asks for a configuration file, specify the path to the "\FrontPage Webs\server\conf\httpd" file as edited above. For other dialogues, go with the default values.

This completes the changes to get FrontPage 98 Personal Web Server off the default port 80. When you use FrontPage 98 after this (on the gateway machine), and you open a web, you need to revise the list of webs.

• Click on "More Webs…", select your new web server (remember the port number you changed to above), and then select one of the webs below. Do this for each of the webs in the list.
• At this point, in the "Getting started" window, you will have a list of webs consisting of both the old (port 80) and the new (port 8080?) server addresses.
• For each of the webs that does NOT show the new port number, you may right-click, and select "remove from list". It does no harm to leave them there, and you may just like to leave them there until you verify that the new ones are working okay.

• Select a web using the new port address, and click on "OK".  The web should now load. 

• If not, verify that the "Web Server Idle" application is running.
• If not, exit from FrontPage 98, open "\FrontPage Webs\server\vhttpd32.exe".
• If this problem persists, consider placing a shortcut to this in your Startup folder.

Alternately you can change the http port setting in PPPshar to some other unused port say 81. Go to PPPsharPro-->Settings and under #http service change listen=80 to listen=81. If you have made this change then FrontPage 98 setting will work by default. Remember to use this new http port in all the http proxy configuration in the client machines.