Moving FP site via FTP doable?

[vlus]

Problem:

I need to move several websites from one web server to another. Some of the sites were composed by the authors in MSFP. I have MSFP enabled on both the old and new servers. My experience with standard html and ftp, unfortunately leaves me with no experience with MSFP and I do not wish to bother the authors with this move.

What I want to do is... since I have MSFP enabled on the new server, can I just FTP an entire MSFP authored website to my local machine, then FTP it to the new server and have the site work including any MSFP specific items?

Thanks in advance for your considered replies.

 

[Noconi]

NO! You will need to use the FrontPage "publish" feature if you want to ensure that none of the FrontPage extensions or FP features that require them are not corrupt in the transfer. FTP will corrupt FrontPage server extensions.

You can open the remote web on the old server and publish it from there to your local hard drive, then from your hard drive to the new server - or just publish it from the old server to the new server. Do this by using the FILE > PUBLISH WEB menu commands and enter the full URL as the destination including http:// and the trailing slash at the end of the URL.

HTH and let us know if you have anymore questions about this process.

Tiffany

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