[HELP!] uploading a website

[Chris952]

I'm currently running windows xp home edition, i've designed a website on frontpage and now want to up load it.

I bought a host package with frontpage page extensions but i am still having trouble uploading onto the internet.

I heard that i need windows xp professional to upload onto the internet, is this the case?

[LLXX]

It's normally done via FTP or SSH...

[nmX.Memnoch]

I bought a host package with frontpage page extensions but i am still having trouble uploading onto the internet.

Are you able to successfully connect to the site with FrontPage? In FrontPage click on File and choose Open Site. Now type in the URL to your site and click on OK. Once you do that you should be able to drag and drop the files from Windows Explorer onto your site in FrontPage. From here on you just connect directly to the site to update pages (as opposed to updating them on your machine and then uploading).

I heard that i need windows xp professional to upload onto the internet, is this the case?

Not true.

[Daemonforce]

Xp Professional/Media Center/TabletPC is needed to install IIS and host from your local network. It's another reason I went to Pro besides the ability to join a domain. Ultimately, it's pointless to do this on a domain because the DC will likely be running a newer and stable version of IIS that your workstation OS will not support. Some of my friends are working on a plan to get IIS to install on XP Home. I think the whole project is stupid since a home OS shouldn't be used as a server in the first place.

[nmX.Memnoch]

You can still connect to a server running FrontPage Server Extensions from an XP Home machine. Connecting to an FPSE enabled server is a function of FrontPage itself, not the OS.

Among other things, FPSE allows you to connect directly to the web server to upload/edit files without having to use an FTP client (or even have FTP enabled on the server).

[Chris952]

cheers for the help guys

when trying to upload load via http an error message comes up saying:

1) Web server may not have the FrontPage server extensions installed.

2) The web-server may be temporarily out of service.

3) If you are connecting through a proxy server the settings may be incorrect

4) An error may have occurred in the web server

The host does have FrontPage extensions installed.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[eyeball]

download filezilla

www.filezilla.com

this will let you upload your files to where you are going to host them

when you bought your package you should get a username, password and ip you can connect to to do this. specify these within filezilla, also choose port 21 as this is the port for ftp

hope this helps you

thanks