Internet Marketing & Development » Website Editors http://www.your-propeller-head.com Tools / Services for Speakers, Consultants, Entrepreneurs, Virtual Assistants and Webmasters Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Creating A Password Protected Folder with FrontPage http://www.your-propeller-head.com/creating-a-password-protected-folder-with-frontpage.php http://www.your-propeller-head.com/creating-a-password-protected-folder-with-frontpage.php#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 23:03:35 +0000 Propy http://your-propeller-head.com/?p=1122

On FrontPage Websites, it’s best to use FrontPage to avoid problems with your Server Extensions

If your website is using FrontPage extensions and you want to password protect a folder, it’s possible to apply the password protection with FrontPage instead of calling your Web Hosting Company, or doing it through your Website Control Panel. This is because applying password protection to a folder from the server side can cause corruption in the FrontPage Extensions, leading to innumerable headaches and hours of lost time.

Note: some of the steps/menu items in the following instructions may vary slightly depending on the version of FrontPage you use and the Permission Levels of your User Login (assigned by Web Hosting Company).

Getting Started:

  1. If your web site is not already open on your home/office computer, open your site/web as your normally would when making changes or updates offline.
  2. Create a new folder in your web and move the page(s) you wish to protect into the new folder.
  3. Right-click on the new folder and choose Convert to Web. This will create what FrontPage calls a subweb in the folder (denoted by a small globe on the folder icon). Remember that you will have to add these pages to the navigation of the subweb once it is converted, if you use FrontPage components on them.
  4. Publish the Site to your Web Server as you normally would when making changes or updates (Make sure to include the subweb by placing a check in the check box).
  5. Once the publish is completed, close the web on your home/office computer.
  6. Open your site online, by browsing to your Network Places or typing in the complete URL (http://www.domainname.com).
  7. Login with the username and password provided by your Web hosting company.
  8. Once FrontPage connects to the server, open your new sub-web by double clicking on the folder (look for the globe) in the folders or folder list view.
  9. In the sub-web, select the Tools menu and choose Server… Administration Home.
  10. In the Users and Roles section, click the link to Change sub-web permissions.
  11. Select the option to Use Unique Permissions for this Web Site and click the Submit button.
  12. At the top, click the Administration link to return to the Administration Home.
  13. Click the link to Change anonymous access settings.
  14. Select the option to turn Anonymous access off and click the Submit button.
  15. At the top, click the Administration link to return to the Administration Home.
  16. Click the link to Manage Users.
  17. Click the link to add a user. Enter the username and password, select the user’s role, and click the Add User button.
  18. If you are finished adding users, click the Administration link to return to the Administration Home.
  19. When finished making changes, select the File menu and choose Close Site.
  20. Then use internet Explorer to check if you did everything correctly.

Once you have verified that everything is functioning correctly Give yourself A Pat On The Back.

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What Makes FrontPage Tick?

FrontPage generates or uses a number of hidden files and folders to automate web development. These primarily apply to FP 2002 or lower, but when working on a site that uses the FrontPage extensions (contains themes, navigation buttons or other components), they are also used with FP 2003.


FrontPage Hidden Folders Defined
(These folders can only be seen when your web/site settings have been adjusted
to view hidden files & folders)

_overlay Overlay files for text on GIF and navigation buttons. These files are transparent GIFs that are overlaid on top of button or banner images to build a complete text on GIF or navigation button composite image.

_derived Files that are dynamically generated by FrontPage and that can be regenerated at any time, such as *.htx files created by the Search component and composite text on GIF images.

_borders Shared border definition files that are included in pages that use shared borders. (Top.htm, Left.htm, Right.htm, Bottom.htm)

_fpclass Compiled Java class files that implement some FrontPage-based features.

_themes Files used for each theme Themes storage. Each theme that is applied to a web is uploaded into a uniquely named subfolder of the _themes directory.

_private This folder is created in each FrontPage-extended web. It is intended to contain user files that are not viewable by a site visitor.

_vti_bin FrontPage Server Extensions executable files for run-time, authoring, and security functionality. On some servers, these files are not present.

_vti_bot Used for custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) created using the FrontPage SDK. This folder contains the implementations of custom components. Custom components installed in these directories are optionally downloaded to the author’ machine when that component is inserted by the author.

_vti_cnf For each HTML page and graphics file in a FrontPage-extended web, there is a configuration file of the same name. Each configuration page contains a set of name-value pairs, identifying such things as the last author to edit a page or the editor associated with a file.

_vti_pvt _x_todo.htm Contains the current settings of the To Do list.

_x_todoh.htm Contains the changes to the To Do list.

_vti_map Contains image map files.

_vti_script *.idq Query files created by the FrontPage Search component when using Index Server on IIS.

_vti_txt This folder contains text indexes for the WAIS search engine only. It is not used by Index Server on IIS.

fpdb When FrontPage creates a Microsoft Access database as part of the Save to Database form handler, it stores it in this folder. Also, the sample database included in FrontPage is stored in this folder.


FrontPage Hidden & Server Files Defined
(These files can only be seen when your web/site settings have been adjusted to view hidden files & folders, or if you are a are the Webhost running FrontPage Extensions.)

Access.cnf Contains HTTP server-specific access control information

Administrators.pwd Encrypted names and passwords of administrators. On Netscape servers only.

Authors.pwd Encrypted names and passwords of authors. On Netscape servers only.

Bots.cnf Used for custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) created using the FrontPage SDK.

Botinfs.cnf Custom FrontPage-based components (WebBots) information listing

Deptodoc.btr Dependency database for the web.

Doctodep.btr Dependency database for the web.

Fpcount.exe Run-time portion of the Hit Counter component.

Frontpg.lck Root web only. Lock file to keep Web server resources from being accessed simultaneously.

Linkinfo.cnf Back links for URLs not in the current web.

Service.cnf Contains meta-information about the web.

Service.grp Lists the members of the Administrator and Author groups. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers.

Service.pwd Contains the encrypted password files. Not used on IIS and WebSite servers.

Service.stp Contains the absolute file-system path to the FrontPage-extended web’ Service.pwd and Service.grp files. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers.

Services.cnf Contains the list of subwebs.

Services.org File used as the basis for Services.cnf when reinstalling the server extensions, so that subwebs are not created as subdirectories of the root web.

Service.lck Lock file to keep web resources from being accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle time.

Structure.cnf Contains FrontPage-extended web navigational information storage.

Svcacl.cnf File used to store whether subwebs have unique permissions settings and any IP address restrictions, so that when reinstalling the server extensions the correct permissions settings are reapplied to any subwebs.

Users.pwd Encrypted names and passwords of end-users. On Netscape servers only.

Uniqueperm.cnf The presence of this file indicates that the subweb has unique permissions settings, as opposed to permissions that it inherited from the root web. Present only in subwebs. Used on IIS only.

Writeto.cnf Back links for files that can be written to by users of the web, such as Save Results form handler result files. Files that can be written to by users of the web have a looser security setting than regular web content.

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FrontPage is a powerful tool used to design, create and publish web sites. You choose the type of web site you want, while FrontPage generates and organizes all the web site documents you need. Then you can fill your web site with the text, pictures, sounds and other features you want your visitors to experience.
By using a tool like FrontPage, creating a web site is now much easier and more intuitive than it was in the past. You can also skip learning HTML (short for Hypertext Markup Language), which is the language or code that web browsers use to present web content.

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