Microsoft FrontPage deals with two kinds of Web sites: disk-based and server-based. In short, a disk-based site is a FrontPage Web site you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to a Web server. A server-based site is one you create and work with directly on a Web server, without the extra step of publishing. This section provides you with instructions on publishing only disk-based web sites.

You can publish disk-based web sites either through FTP or HTTP. If your server is running FrontPage Server Extensions, you would publish your site to an HTTP location. For example: http://your-domain.com/MyWebSite. If your server supports FTP, you would publish to an FTP location. For example: ftp://ftp.your-domain.com/myFolder.

After publishing, you can manage your site through FrontPage Server Extensions.

To access FrontPage Server Extensions management interface:

1. Log in to Plesk.
2. Click the domain name you need.
3. Click FrontPage Management in the Hosting group.
4. According to the Microsoft FrontPage support settings of the domain, one of the following icons will appear next to Add New FrontPage Subaccount:
   • Click FrontPage WebAdmin to manage a site, which is not protected by SSL.
   • Click FrontPage-SSL WebAdmin to manage an SSL-enabled site.
5. Type your FrontPage administrator's login name and password, and click OK.

Publishing from Microsoft FrontPage through FTP

To publish files through FTP:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage Web site: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Set up your Remote Web Site Properties:
   • Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
   • Select FTP as the remote Web server.
   • In the Remote Web site location box, type your host name (e.g., ftp://ftp.your-domain.com)
   • In the FTP directory box, type your FTP directory if your hosting company provided one. Leave it blank if they did not specify one.
   • Select the Use Passive FTP check box if your computer or network is protected by a firewall.
5. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

6. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window.

Publishing from Microsoft FrontPage through HTTP

To publish files through HTTP on a server that supports FrontPage Server Extensions:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage Web site: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
5. On the Remote Web Site tab, under Remote Web server type, click FrontPage or SharePoint Services.
6. In the Remote Web site location box, type the Internet address, including the protocol, of the remote Web site that you want to publish folders and files to — for example, http://www.your-domain.com — or click Browse to locate the site.
7. Do any of the following:
   • To use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for establishing a secure communications channel to prevent the interception of critical information, click Encryption connection required (SSL). To use SSL connections on your Web server, the server must be configured with a security certificate from a recognized certificate authority. If the server does not support SSL, clear this check box. Otherwise, you will not be able to publish folders and files to the remote Web site.
   • To remove specific types of code from Web pages as they are being published, on the Optimize HTML tab, select the options you want.
   • To change the default options for publishing, on the Publishing tab, select the options you want.
8. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

9. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window.

Changing Microsoft FrontPage Settings

If you want Microsoft FrontPage to use its own IIS Index Server to build the full-text index of your Web site.

To make Microsoft FrontPage use its own IIS Index Server:

1. From your Home page go to domain name > FrontPage Management > Preferences.
2. Select Use the IIS Index Server check box and click OK.

If you use FrontPage forms that submit information by e-mail on your site, you may want to specify the following preferences:

• SMTP mail server that will be used for sending mail. By default, SMTP server specified in the domain's DNS zone is used for sending mail. If no SMTP server is specified in the zone, then FrontPage uses the mail service running on the server where the domain (site) is hosted.
• Sender's e-mail address. By default, domain owner's e-mail address is used. If the domain owner's e-mail address is not specified in domain owner's profile, then FrontPage uses the e-mail address of the client, to whom the domain belongs. If the client's e-mail address is not specified in the client's profile, then the server administrator's e-mail address is used.

To change the preferences:

1. From your Home page go to domain name > FrontPage Management > Preferences.
2. Under Mail Settings specify the SMTP server and the e-mail address you want to use, and then click OK.