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!ngeniuos - 30 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT

Good day ..

Our company has our website hosted on a win2003 server ....
The entire site is html only..

Included on all the pages is this bit of code :


This refers to a footer for all pages (to do some quick marketing banners,
sponsored links, etc)

This footer page is sometimes updated, the content should then be displayed
on all other pages. However recently the footer page was changed, but teh
"new footer" is only on the index page (home page)
We code our pages with an html editor and upload using Bulletproof FTP.

How can I get all the pages to display the "new footer"? (recalculate on
the IIS server)

Thanx

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Daniel Crichton - 30 Jul 2008 12:42 GMT

!ngeniuos wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:36:03 -0700:

> Good day ..

> Our company has our website hosted on a win2003 server ....
> The entire site is html only..

> Included on all the pages is this bit of code :
>

> This refers to a footer for all pages (to do some quick marketing
> banners, sponsored links, etc)

> This footer page is sometimes updated, the content should then be
> displayed on all other pages. However recently the footer page was
> changed, but teh "new footer" is only on the index page (home page)
> We code our pages with an html editor and upload using Bulletproof FTP.

> How can I get all the pages to display the "new footer"? (recalculate
> on the IIS server)

That's a FrontPage include - so it will only update the included code if you
use FrontPage to perform the update. As you're updating via FTP you have to
upload every page this affects, you can't just upload the include_footer.htm
file. It's not a server side include like the #include in SSI or ASP, it's
simply a tag telling FrontPage where in each page that file is included, and
when you make a change to the included file FrontPage needs to go through
all the pages that use that tag and make the changes to the HTML in that
page. It's not something that you can get IIS to "recalculate", you need to
make sure that the pages are being correctly updated on whichever machine
the files are stored on and make sure that whenever you change this footer
page you upload all the affected pages via FTP.

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!ngeniuos - 31 Jul 2008 12:05 GMT

Itaek it that there is no way to get the server to updatethe files on te
webserver itself.
I use dailup to update the pages..... so time is a bit of a ...

Would it be of help if I buy Frontpage 2003 - , install it on the server and
run the recalculate option on the server??, as ther seem to no other tools to
do this. ??

Thanx

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!ngeniuos
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> !ngeniuos wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:36:03 -0700:
>
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> the files are stored on and make sure that whenever you change this footer
> page you upload all the affected pages via FTP.

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Daniel Crichton - 31 Jul 2008 12:37 GMT

Are the FrontPage extensions installed on the server already? If so, you
should be able to connect to it using FrontPage from your PC and tell it to
recalculate, which might work. It's been a long time since I've had to run
recalculate via the FP extensions on a server so I can't remember exactly
what steps it will take.

Installing FrontPage itself on the server is a waste of time. Also the FP
extensions are free - for older Windows servers you install them from the FP
CD, for newer ones they are included on the Windows OS CD.

Are you using just plain HTML pages? If you're using .ASP as the extension,
for instance, you could replace the FP includes with SSI includes - these
don't use embedded HTML in the "parent" pages with tags to get FP to update
them when the "child" file is changed, so if you update the footer "child"
file then all the pages using the SSI style include will have the new
version without any messing around with FrontPage.

Dan

!ngeniuos wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:05:00 -0700:

> Itaek it that there is no way to get the server to updatethe files on
> te webserver itself.
> I use dailup to update the pages..... so time is a bit of a ...

> Would it be of help if I buy Frontpage 2003 - , install it on the
> server and run the recalculate option on the server??, as ther seem to
> no other tools to do this. ??

> Thanx --
> !ngeniuos (99% Perspiration)

>> !ngeniuos wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:36:03 -0700:

>>> Good day ..

>>> Our company has our website hosted on a win2003 server ....
>>> The entire site is html only..

>>> Included on all the pages is this bit of code :
>>>

>>> This refers to a footer for all pages (to do some quick marketing
>>> banners, sponsored links, etc)

>>> This footer page is sometimes updated, the content should then be
>>> displayed on all other pages. However recently the footer page was
>>> changed, but teh "new footer" is only on the index page (home page)
>>> We code our pages with an html editor and upload using Bulletproof
>>> FTP.

>>> How can I get all the pages to display the "new footer"?
>>> (recalculate on the IIS server)

>> That's a FrontPage include - so it will only update the included code
>> if you use FrontPage to perform the update. As you're updating via
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>> machine the files are stored on and make sure that whenever you
>> change this footer page you upload all the affected pages via FTP.

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