IIS - subsites within sites

Asked By Poll

02-Sep-08 08:40 PM

I'm trying to learn to use FP 2003 to manage a website [my church] set up by
someone long gone.  The church website is of the usual form www.church.org.
In order to find the newsletter, one must type in  "/newsletter".  So is

If so, and since it cannot be reached by a link on any site page, how do I
find it in FP so I can add newsletters to it?

I can download the website, and separately download  the "/newsletter" site,
but I don't see how to work on the subsite through the main site, or
alternatively to link the subsite into the main site.

I have read the help and the "dummies" book.  I'm stuck.

03-Sep-08 04:16 AM

Newsletter is a folder within the site.  The link
http://www.example.com/newsletter will open the default page in that
folder.  If the default page is index.htm this link will be equivalent
to:
http://www.example.com/newsletter/index.htm

Whether the newsletter folder is a subsite or not depends on how the
folder is configured.  When you open the main site in FrontPage, does
the icon for the newsletter folder have a globe on it?  If so, it is a
subsite, if not, it's an ordinary folder.


The following assumes that the website on the server has FrontPage
extensions installed.

To download a website that contains subsites, open the website in
FrontPage and click on the Remote Website tab.
If you have a remote web site set up, this will open in the right column
(you may have to log in).  Click Remote Web Site Properties above the
right column, and click on the Publishing tab.  Check the box "Publish
sub sites" and click OK.

Select the direction you wish to publish (either Local to Remote or
Remote to Local).  The Local web is the website you opened first in the
left column, the Remote web is the second website, in the right column.
Then click the Publish button.  The subsite will be published with the
main web.

To open a subsite, browse to it in the Folder list, and double click.
The subsite will open in a new instance of FrontPage as an independent
web site.

To create a link to a page in the main site from a page in the subsite
just use the hyperlink dialogue and browse to the page.  Same with links
from the main page to the sub site.

If you use Navigation View, then
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/navigation/mailto-navigation.asp
may help (it's not exactly what you need, but should point in the right
direction).

If you need more specific help, please post again.

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03-Sep-08 04:17 AM

/newsletter is a folder and not necessarily a subweb
It is a folder in the site that has a "default home page" within it
- a "default home page" is a file with the same name as your site home page has (usually index.htm or default.htm)
Open your site in FP and look for the folder named "newsletter"
- if you can see files in the folder it is not a subweb
- if you can't see any files in it it is a subweb
(double click the subweb folder newsletter to open it in FP)

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