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Connect and publish files by using Frontpage

Following are the steps to connect the Frontpage and publish the sites files/folders.

1.Begin by starting Microsoft FrontPage Explorer from your Windows Start Menu.

2.Select Open Web… from the File… menu. This will open the Open Web dialogue.

3.In the Open Web dialogue, select the My Network Places icon.

4.Now, enter http://www.yourdomainname.com into the Web Name field. Click Open to continue.

5.You will now be presented with a pop-up window entitled Enter Network Password.Enter your cPanel or FTP Username and Password without any space. Click OK to continue.

6.FrontPage Explorer will open a Folder List window at the left-hand edge of the Explorer screen that will contain the entire directory structure for your webspace.

7.To edit pages using FrontPage, double-click any of the web pages listed in the Folder List. A new FrontPage window will open for each page you select.

8. To upload newly-modified pages to the web, select File… then save… from the FrontPage Explorer tool bar. Your web pages will automatically reflect your latest changes.

Frontpage problem

If anyone facing problems with the FrontPage installation then first uninstall the installed FrontPage from shell /home/user/public_html (Change the user to your user name)
Then run the following commands one by one.

rm -rf .htaccess.*
rm -rf _vti_pvt/
rm -rf _derived
rm -rf _private
rm -rf _vti_*

If server is SuExec enabled then first disable it from the WHM
And install FrontPage for the specific domain where you have seems the problem and then try to publish site by using Frontpage. If you are still facing the problem then

remove all the .htaccess.* from/home/user/public_html and remove all _* (private,vti,etc)one by one carefully.

Now try to install it and check for the permission and ownership of public_html folder

Permission and ownership need to be as follows

chown user:user public_html -R
chmod 755 public_html -R

if the problem still persists then check whether the permission of public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd is 600 or not?

(try even setting an attr and set the permission to 600)

ie
chmod 600 service.pwd
chattr +i service.pwd
chattr -i service.pwd

It will sort out your problem enjoy

Install and uninstall Frontpage for single domain from Shell.

First you need to login into your server with the root login details and then run followings commands one by one

/scripts/setupfp5:

What is the servername you want to setup? www.****.org
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/.htaccess
Using Upgrade Mode
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/_private/.htaccess

For remove /scripts/unsetupfp4

What is the servername you want to setup? www.****.org
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/.htaccess
Using Upgrade Mode
Saving .htaccess file: /home/****/public_html/_private/.htaccess

Thats it enjoy

Reinstall Frontpage extensions on the domain?

You can reinstall the Frontpage extension for single hosting account / domain by using following command from shell.

cd /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/bin

./owsadm.exe -o install -u cpanel_user_name -p 80 -m www.domainname.com -servconf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf -xuser cpanel_user_name

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