What are frontpage extensions and how to use them

The FrontPage Extensions are server-side scripts that enable server support for websites created with Microsoft's FrontPage website builder.

With the use of the so-called 'web bots', the FrontPage Extensions track any changes to the design of your website as you work on it locally on your computer and then make appropriate modifications to the files under your web hosting account. By doing this, the FrontPage Extensions prove to be invaluable when processing automated requests, thus giving you more time to focus on the actual website development. FrontPage support aside, this technology is also used by Microsoft for file synchronization purposes in other applications - most notably in some of the previous versions of the 'Visual Studio' and the 'ClickOnce' applications.

Even though Microsoft decided to discontinue the support and the future development of FrontPage (and replaced it with 'Microsoft SharePoint Designer') at the end of 2006, we understand that many people still continue to use it for their websites, and realize that it will be in our clients' best interest to fully integrate the FrontPage Extensions technology with our hosting services.

By default, the FrontPage Extensions are disabled for all your domains (websites). In order to enable them, go to the Site Management > FrontPage Extensions section of your Web Hosting Control Panel. There you can choose which domains will be hosting a FrontPage-based website by checking the appropriate boxes and clicking on the 'Apply' button to activate the FrontPage Extensions for these domains. Allow up to ten minutes for the changes to take full effect on the server, start your FrontPage application and use the FTP credentials in order to successfully log in.