Anybody Have a workaround for the lack of support for Front Page?

I was using Yahoo small business to host my web site. The problem I was having is, after Yahoo quit supporting "Front Page" I was no longer able to publish my applications to my web site. The reason is, Yahoo Small Business web hosting is done on a Unix based system. Unix does not support hosting executable files. So I am in the process of moving my web site to a hosting service that is Windows Based, rather than Unix based.

So if you are having similar trouble, you can reply to this post & I will help you if I can.

Front Page server extensions have been depreciated. They are no longer supportted and are no longer safe to run them on the server side. This is true for Unix/Linux and Windows.

I still have clients that use Front Page and they can publish just fine to site what do not have the Frontpage server extensions.

The trick is to use the WebDev or FTP option when you publish.

FrontPage rally has reached its end of life. I would recommend switching to Microsoft Expressions.

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Boyd Trimmell aka HiTechCoach (.com)
Microsoft Access MVP Alumni 2010-2015

Hi Coach,

Sorry for the delay in the reply. I have been very busy with switching web servers. I was told by a technical support person at Yahoo that yahoo does not support executables. That means no "Click once applications". The reason she gave was " if my executables were to have a bug in them, that could cause the whole site to crash because Yahoo is running on a Unix machine."
I switched to a Windows based site with AT&T. Still I am having trouble using the publish feature. I have been working with Ajay Pathak; Developer Support Engineer | ASP.NET | Internet Information Services | Microsoft GTSC, and so far we have not come up with any solutions, even using FTP. He is scheduled to call later today. Hopefully we can find a solution then.

Thank you for your reply.

I have nerer had a need for any Click once applications with FrontPage.

Curious, what "Click once applications" are you tryig to run?

Let me know if you donlt get it worling and I will post a screen shot of what I do.

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Boyd Trimmell aka HiTechCoach (.com)
Microsoft Access MVP Alumni 2010-2015

"Click Once" applications are the executables created when you install an application from the web Using VS2010. It works like this.
1) Build the application.
2) Publish the application to a web site.
3) Download the application from the site.
4) the downloader then installs the "click once" application which...
A) First checks the internet for updates to the program each time the program is booted.
1) IF updates are found,
a) prompts you to Dounload the updates
b) install the updates if yes
c) Boots the program
2) NO updates found then simply boots the program
B) Insures all the required files are in place. .net framework, & other dlls.


"Click once works very nice for me because I can build applications on the road and my employees dont have to be computer literate at all to run the current version of my programs and I dont have to keep track of which Folder I published to last...

but yes I did finally get my new at&t hosted site to accept the installer on my page . Here is the "Hello World program I published as a test for the uploader... http://swcprocessing.com/Test/publish.htm. if you still have any questions about it.

Thank you for you help.

So what does that have to do with FrontPage?

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Boyd Trimmell aka HiTechCoach (.com)
Microsoft Access MVP Alumni 2010-2015

Visual Studio uses "Front Page" server extensions to publish to a web site.

Ah ... things are making sense now.

What version of Visual Studios are you using?

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Boyd Trimmell aka HiTechCoach (.com)
Microsoft Access MVP Alumni 2010-2015

Coach,
my e-mail address is [email protected]. if you would rather we could continue this via. e-mail ... I am using Visual Studio 2010. not sure the exact version right now. I left my laptop at work.