FrontPage Upload To GeoCities

GeoCities now supports most of the file types (extensions) for FrontPage 98, so the FrontPage 98 Publish function will work for many people. You should try it to see if it works. If the FrontPage 98 Publish function doesn't work for you, I recommend using FTP to upload your pages to GeoCities.

If you use some FrontPage specific features (like Counters), the Publish function may fail because it tries to upload files that GeoCities does not support. If you remove these files, the publish function will usually work.

Note: Before publishing your web with FrontPage, if you have a GeoCities Guestbook (geobook.html) as part of your web. Make sure you download, rename, and/or backup geobook.html, because the current version on your hard drive will be published.

Publishing Information

The publishing information for GeoCities is as follows:

The Publish Function

First, connect to the Internet, you can't upload if you are not connected.

In the FrontPage Explore, on the File Menu, select the Publish FrontPage Web option. This will open the Publish Dialog. If you have already successfully published before, just select the http://www.oocities.org/... entry, and press the Ok button. If this is the first time you are publishing your pages, continue with these instructions.

Push the More Webs button, this brings up the Publish FronPage Web dialog, for the Location to Publish your Web to, enter your full GeoCities address (capitalized correctly), for example:

http://www.oocities.org/NeighborHood/Avenue/1234

Then press the Ok button.

FrontPage will then go through some gyrations as it trys to figure out how it can publish your pages. Eventually the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard will pop up. If the Web Publishing Wizard isn't asking you for FTP, information, then tell it to use Other Service Provider using FTP.

Fill in the Web Publishing Wizard FTP information as follows:

Server Name: ftp.oocities.com
Directory Path: leave blank

Then press the Next button.

The Web Publishing Wizard will then switch to asking for your User Name and Password. Fill in your GeoCities member name and password and press the Finish button.
Note: your member name and password should be all lowercase, consisting of just letters and numbers, if this is not the case, you may never be able to upload to GeoCities.

The Web Publishing Wizard will then go through the gyrations of connecting to the GeoCities FTP server, calculating what files to publish, and hopefully transferring those files to GeoCities.

Common Causes of Failures

The GeoCities Server is Busy, the GeoCities FTP Server only allows a limited number of users to connect at one time

The GeoCities FTP Sever is not working or is down. Check the GeoCities System Status page, but this isn't always posted on a timely basis.

Uploading files with unsupported extensions, for example: *.cnt (a FrontPage Counter)

Uploading files with invalid names (some special characters are not allowed).

Bad Internet Connection, if the Internet is busy, or your connection is producing errors. You can get connection errors.

FrontPage Publishing Help Sites

You can visit these sites for help on using the FrontPage Publish funciton at GeoCities:

	ModemMom's Place, home of ModemMom's Help with FrontPage 98.
	The Windows Resource Center. has a MicroSoft FrontPage section.
	Over at Tripod, there is the Microsoft FrontPage 98 Publishing at GeoCities.

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