Publish files and folders to an FTP server

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Publish files and folders to an FTP server

To publish files and folders in a Web site to a Web server that supports File Transfer Protocol (FTP), you must open and save a copy of the site to your computer, edit the files and folders in that copy, and then publish the updated files and folders to the server.

Do the following:

ShowSet the remote Web site properties

  1. On the View menu, click Remote Web Site.
  2. At the top of the document window, click Remote Web Site Properties.
  3. On the Remote Web Site tab, under Remote Web server type, click FTP.
  4. In the Remote Web site location box, type the address, including the FTP protocol, of the remote Web site that you want to publish folders and files to — for example, ftp://example.com — or click Browse to locate the site.
  5. If you want to view a specific folder when you connect to the site, in the FTP directory box, type the path to the folder — for example, www/images.
  6. If the server that hosts the remote Web site uses a different port each time you publish files and folders to the site, select the Use Passive FTP check box.
  7. Do any of the following:
    • 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.

ShowVerify and add file name extensions to transfer as ASCII

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. Click the FTP tab.
  3. If the file name extension for the type of file you plan to publish is not in the list, under New Extension, type the file name extension, and then click Add.

Note  If the file name extension for a file type does not appear in the list, Microsoft FrontPage publishes files of that type in binary format.

ShowMark files that you do not want to publish

  • In the Local Web site pane, right-click each file that you do not want to publish, and then click Don't Publish on the shortcut menu.

ShowPublish files and folders to Web server that supports FTP

  1. Under the Remote Web site pane, under Publish all changed pages, click Local to remote.
  2. Click Publish Web site.

Note  If you stop a publish in progress, files that have already been published will remain on the remote Web site.