Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/06/07 14:11

PW wrote:

> "navin" wrote:
>> i am very new to creating websites. i have created a small site with
>> frontpage to be used internally in my office. i am trying to publish
>> the site from one of our shared drive.

You say you are new, so you may not have heard that FrontPage is a
terrible web tool. However, since it is for an intranet, I guess this is
ok for now. For future, look into, as an example, the Kompozer.
http://kompozer.net/

>> please tell me, how to publish the site, so that people can access
>> it from the shared drive.
>
> If its within your office network, try something like ...
>
> http://<the servers IP address>/<the folder the webpages are in>/<the
> initial webpage name>

...which would only work if the serving PC was running a web server.
Apache, Microsoft IIS ...

navin could publish locally, then copy all the files to the server,
using the exact same directory tree structure.

> e.g...
>
> http://111.222.333.444/mywebsite/index.htm

file:///<shared-drive-letter>/<root>/<subdir>/index.html

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