Microsoft KB Archive/265159

= FP2000: Publishing Using FTP Navigates to Home Directory, Not Content Directory =

Article ID: 265159

Article Last Modified on 8/27/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q265159



SYMPTOMS
When you publish a web using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in FrontPage, you are prompted to type your user name and password. FrontPage then publishes to your home directory, rather than to your content directory.

For example, FrontPage publishes to your home directory at:

ftp://example.microsoft.com/users/myhomedir

instead of publishing to your content directory at:

ftp://example.microsoft.com/users/myhomedir/public_html



CAUSE
This is because your home directory is the default path for uploading files to a server through FTP.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, add a &quot;%2f&quot; prefix to the full path of your content directory from the root of the FTP server. For example, you might specify a path like the following example.

If your Content Directory is on a server named &quot;example.microsoft.com&quot; in the following path:

/users/myhomedir/public_html

specify the following path in FrontPage:

ftp://example.microsoft.com/%2fusers/myhomedir/public_html

The &quot;%2f&quot; characters are a hexadecimal escape sequence for a forward slash character, which represents the root directory on the FTP server. When this is added before the full path to your content, the FTP server will be able to find your content directory correctly.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about publishing webs, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

198523 FP2000: How to Publish a FrontPage Web

Additional query words: ocsso front page

Keywords: kbfix kbprb KB265159

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