Windows Shared Hosting

FrontPage
How to use FrontPage

ASP
Active Server Pages, server side scripting for NT.

DSN
Data Source Name, a database connection to the SQL server.

MSSQL
Microsoft SQL Database.

FrontPage

Uploading the Site using FrontPage

Once you have created your site, you can publish the files to the server by choosing 'file' from the menu bar and then choose "publish web". A box will appear asking you to specify the location to publish your web to. In that field, you will type: http://www.yourdomain.name and click the publish button. Your site should start to then publish to your server space on the 1uphost server.

Publishing live with FrontPage

You can open your website directly from the server and start making changes right away. The advantage of this method is that you save time because your results are immediately available.

Perform the following steps:

• Launch Microsoft FrontPage from your desktop or Start menu.
• Click the Open from the File Menu.
• Enter your domain name or IP address in the File name field and click Open.
• Enter your account 'Username' and 'Password' at the prompt.
• A directory listing of your Web site appears.
• Select the document you want to open and click the Open button.
• The page appears in the right frame.
• Make changes directly to the page.
• When you are ready to save your work, click on the Save.
• You are prompted for a file name and location.
• Enter a file name for this page or use the default name provided and click Save.

Changes take effect immediately.

Taking a Backup using Frontpage

Open your web in FrontPage. Next, in your folder list:

1. Click on the minus sign so that it changes to a plus and pulls all of your files into the one directory named: http://yourdomain.com/. It should also be highlighted now.
2. Go to 'File'
   Choose 'Publish Web'
   Click 'Browse'
   Now, select your desktop. Create a folder on your desktop called 'BackUp'.
3. 3. Select the backup folder, and click 'Open'
4. 4. Click 'Publish'

It will copy/publish your entire site to that folder.

Important FrontPage Links

Main FrontPage Site:
Information about FrontPage, including a trial version available on the site.

FrontPage FAQs:
Frequently asked questions about FrontPage.

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ASP

Active Server Pages , a specification for a dynamically created Web page with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting -- usually VB Script or Jscript code. When a browser requests an ASP, the Web server generates a page with HTML code and sends it back to the browser.

Important ASP Links

ASP Basics:
Microsoft site's online library.

ASP Developers:
Good site for ASP Developers, with lots of articles, sample codes.

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DSN

A data source name (DSN) is a data structure that contains the information about a specific database that an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver needs in order to connect to it.

At a customers request, 1uphost sets up an DSN (data source name) which points to a Microsoft Access database within their site. The data source name is a textual string that is used to reference the data source by application programs, such as Microsoft Access. A unique identifier must be provided for each data source.

The database is placed in a data directory outside of the main directory for security purposes.

For example, you have a database called databasename.mdb and it is located in a folder called databasefolder. Select any name for the DSN, such as abcxyz, and contact our Support Team, telling that you require a DSN of abcxyz for databasename.mdb located in databasedfolder.

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MSSQL

Before a user can access a SQL Server, we have to add the login information to MS SQL itself, separate from your main account. This is not setup initially unless requested on order sign-up, and so must be specifically requested.

Your database is created with the following defaults:

• 20 MB total space is set aside for user databases in MS SQL. More space can be purchased to put towards your database at any time.
• Your database is NOT set to expand automatically -- the transaction log (which is an independent physical file from the database) can grow independently, to the size of the database, and will be truncated if it is taking too much space (we recommend truncating it yourself through the Enterprise Manager, so that we do not disrupt your operations).
• You are assigned db_owner access to your database.
• A System DSN will be assigned, based on your request, named by default as your username0X where X is the DSN number. However, when requesting the DSN, you need to provide the following:
  Database Name:
  Database username:
  Database password:

Important MS SQL Links

MS SQL
Lots of information on Microsoft SQL Server.

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