Using Remote Site View

Using Remote Site View

The Remote Site view allows you to compare the content of the current local Web site and a target remote Web site. Typically, the local Web site contains the development version of a site and the remote Web site on a Web server contains the "live" site on the Internet. Using Remote Site view, you can publish an entire Web site or individual files. If you display Remote Site view for a site you have not published, a blank window appears with the message Click "Remote Web Site Properties..." to setup a remote site. You can publish your files to a Web site with FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services, WebDAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), or Windows file system.

Specify the Remote Web Site Location

Open the Web site you want to publish, click the View menu' and then click Remote Web Site.

Click the Remote Web Site Properties button.

Click the Remote Web Site tab.

Click the option with the remote Web server type in which you want to publish your files.

• FrontPage or SharePoint Services. The site is running FrontPage Server Extensions or Windows SharePoint Services; use http://URL.

• WebDAV. The site supports WebDAV; use http://URL.

• FTP. The site supports FTP; use ftp://URL.

• File System. The site resides on a local or network drive; use C:\MyWeb or \\Server\MyWeb.

Type the remote Web site location or use Browse to select it.

Click OK.

Change Publishing Properties

Open the Web site you want to publish, click the View menu' and then click Remote Web Site.

Click the Remote Web Site Properties button.

Click the Publishing tab.

Click the publish options you want.

• Changed Pages Only

• All Pages, Overwriting Pages Already On Destination

• Include Subsites. Select the check box to publish all Web sites contained within the main Web site.

Click the option you want to specify how FrontPage compares file in the two Web sites.

• Determine Changes By Comparing Source And Destination Sites

• Use Source File Timestamps To Determine Changes Since Last Publish

To keep a log of changes, select the Log Changes During Publish check box.

To display the log for the most recent publish operation, click View Log File.

Click OK.

For Your Information Entering the Publishing Destination When you publish your site to a folder on your local file system, you enter a location using the syntax C:\\sitefolder, where C is the drive letter. When you publish your site to a folder on a network server, you enter a location using the Universal Naming Conventions (UNC). UNC is a convention that produces a machine-independent way to locate a file. The UNC name employs the syntax \\server\share\path\foldername. When you publish your site to a folder on a Web server on the World Wide Web, you enter a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A URL consists of three parts: the prefix http://, which indicates a Web address; a network identification, such as www for the World Wide Web; and a Web site name, or domain name, such as homesense-inc.com.