Publishing your FrontPage web tutorial

This tutorial contains a step-by-step lesson on how to install FrontPage extensions on your domain and how to successfully publish your website.

Logging in to WebsiteOS

Log in to your domain account through our site.

You'll be prompted for your domain and password. Enter your domain (in the form of yourdomain.com) and your domain password. Click the "Continue" button to login.

Installing the FrontPage Extensions

If you have not already installed the FrontPage extensions on your domain, you must install them before you can publish your website.

From the WebsiteOS Control Panel click on FrontPage. The FrontPage function that allows you to install the FrontPage extensions. These server extensions allow your site to use FrontPage specific components like form submission and shared borders.

For instruction on how to install the FrontPage on a domain without access control files, click here.

For instruction on how to install the FrontPage on a domain with access control files, click here.

For the definition of access control files, click here.

Publishing your web site

Now that the FrontPage extensions are installed on your domain, it is time to publish your site.

In FrontPage, from the "File" menu choose the "Publish Web" option. You will be prompted to provide a URL to publish your web to. Enter your domain (in the form of yourdomain.com). This will publish your web to your domain and place it in the /public directory.

IMPORTANT: If you registered your domain name or changed your domain name’s name servers in the last 24-48 hours, the DNS for your domain name may not have propagated over the entire Internet yet. If you would like to publish your FrontPage site within this time period, you should follow the publishing instructions above, but use WebsiteOS' site preview function. To preview your site in WebsiteOS, click on the link showing your website's URL, found in the bottom-left section of WebsiteOS.

After specifying the address to publish to, you have the choice of publishing the entire site, or just the pages that have been changed. If you are publishing for the first time, choose "Publish all pages".

The "Include subwebs" option is for webs that parent multiple webs. If you're not sure if you have subwebs, chances are you don't. In this case, leave the box unchecked.

Some important notes

  1. Be sure to install the FrontPage extensions on your domain BEFORE publishing your website.

  2. Publish your site using FrontPage's "Publish Web" function. Your publishing address is your domain (in the form of yourdomain.com).

  3. Installing the FrontPage extensions disables regular FTP access along with certain WebsiteOS functions.

  4. Once your web site is published, use a browser and check to make sure all your changes occurred. If they haven't, try refreshing your browser and clearing the cache (temporary Internet files) before making further changes to your site.

  5. If all else fails, email our support department.