Ever heard of this? Front Page only
I've done a web page for a customer and now we are trying to get it hosted by a company my customer wants to use.
I've done all of the pages in standard HTML and have requested FTP access for the new account. Now the guy who runs the server is requesting all of the pages be 'reformatted to Front Page'.
I've never heard of this, but, I'm still kind of new to this also. Is the host blowing smoke or is this a legitemate request?
Thanks in advance.
John
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Anonymous posted this at 21:56 — 13th March 2000.
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Microsoft Front Page is a site development environment and one way to upload documents. It’s almost standard seeing that so many hosts support it, however FTP is still the most standard uploading protocol.
It really should not matter to the host how you upload. If they do not provide FTP access find another host. On the other hand if the client wants to use this host for some reason, the best thing you can do is drag and drop all your files into Front Page and upload (I’ve done it before for other reasons).
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orlando_5 posted this at 10:03 — 14th March 2000.
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johnnyboy:
Get out of that hosting company! It will only cause you more trouble in the future! A hosting company that do not let clients use FTP is a very bad company.
FP do get in via FTP, as far as I know of (FP98). So I don't know whats going on with them...
My advice is to get out of there and get a legitemate webhosting company.
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Maverick posted this at 20:13 — 14th March 2000.
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I'll second Orlando's opinion. It's absolutely unthinkable that a host will not allow standard FTP access. If they're unable to provide something normal like that, who knows what else they might not allow in the future. Change hosts and do it now.
johnnyboy posted this at 11:34 — 15th March 2000.
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Thanks!
Problem solved.. My customer decided to bail on this host. Too many problems.
Thanks Again!!
John
Anonymous posted this at 23:15 — 18th March 2000.
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sorry to bring this thread back up. I'm not positive as to what the host means but this may be it, if they have FP extensions installed on the server for the use of maybe ASP's or something, whenever you transfer through FTP, it will alter these extensions and they will have to be re-installed. maybe thats why they wanted you to use FP.....
Ravi
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