I am working on a new site for a friend.

Is it possible for someone in another area to preview an unpublished site the way we can inside the site spinner program...viewing it on a closed browser?

Is it possible to e-mail an unpublished site for review to someone who does not have the program?

I have an existing site and am wondering if it might be published in a way I could direct them to a few pages which are not linked to mine...if his were the case it doesn't seem possible to copy pages from the new site and paste them in my existing site.

Thanks in advance for your help.

James

You could publish what you have to iHost as a temporary, 24 hour post. Your friend/customer could then take a look at what you currently have.

You could also publish it to your existing site in a separate directory and then let your friend/customer know the link to get there.

An unpublished site, i.e. an .ims project file can't be seen by somebody who doesn't have the program but there are other ways. First of all you have your own website on a server. You can create a test folder in your root directory and just make sure that you publish your friends site to that folder. The link to the site should be something like www.yoursite/test/index.html. You can also publish to a trial site. Use iHostVM tab in SS Publisher. The site will stay up there 24 hours.

Edit: Sorry Kirk posted before I saw your answer.

Like I've never done that Roma Besides, you clarified my reply

It's great with team work, isn't it ;-)

I just hope we’re all on the winning team . . .

Just a little extra, James asked about emailing the site. He could publish the site to disk, zip the entire folder and email that.

Just a further wrinkle. If you create a test folder, you may wish to think about passwording it through your control panel.

I was developing a site and published it to a test folder but some journalist digging around found it and blew apart our carefully timed press announcement. Much embarrassment and loss of face.

Thanks for the many and timely replies.

I would like to pursue Roma's idea (if i understand it completely). When life was simple I had an FTP application which allowed simple looks at the server and what was stored there.

Since Vista I haven't upgraded the FTP program and I have been using the publisher in the site spinner program to make the occasional change to my web site...and I am not sure how things actually happen.

Do I need to get the FTP upgrade to create another folder on my server or can I do it in the site spinner program? Although I have never done it, I can apparently have a couple of sites running from the same domain if I have them in different folders...is that correct?

Will I need to have both websites in the same site spinner program file or can they both be in different site spinner files? What is needed to make them both run on the same domain with (2) separate program files for each?

Thanks again for your help!

James

I'll try to answer your questions one by one.
1. In order to create a new folder on the server you don't need an independent ftp client. Open SS Publisher > FTP tab and click Browse. In the dialogue box FTP Server Directory you'll see the 'Create Folder' option.
2. While browsing your server directory in the 'Destination Directory:' field you should have a path starting with / and possibly yoursite.com/public_html (depending on your webhost it can be something different but should start with /). This loction is your root directory. You just create a new folder in thet directory.
3. You shouldn't have both websites in the same project file (I assume that you meant projrct and not program). Create a new project file and build your friends website there. The important thing is that you add a new profile in SS Publisher and make sure that the new profile points to the new directory on the server. More on the subject in SS Tutorials here.

Roma..

What would be the correct path to the web site? if , for example, I used the following /mysite/wwwroot/RDTL as the publish directory?

http://www.mysite.com/RDTL/index.html

Thanks, James

Hi James,
Providing that the new folder that you created is called RDTL, then you are absolutely correct.

Use the SS Publisher->FTP tab. Leave the remote directory box empty and click the browse button. SS will try to connect to your site using your root directory as the remote directory.

You can confirm this is the root directory if you see your index.html file and the /image and /geometry folders. If these are present, then this is where you want to add your test folder. Click the New Folder button and give it your desired name. Then select that folder and click OK. It will now appear loaded in the remote directory box, ready for publishing.

Larryd

In the FTP tab leaving the Remote Publish Directory empty...then hitting the Browse buttom will produce the FTP server Directory for me, however, it has not got my directory in it. It has 8 folders (annon_ftp; cgi-bin; eror_docs; httpdocs; htpsdocs; private;statistics; subdomains; vault_scripts; & web_users) and a security file.

If I click on the httpsdocs I have several more folders, one of which is "test" (it's empty) and several folders with website files some newer and some very old.

I have made a new folder there called "RDTL" so the remote publish directory reads /httpdocs/RDTL and I published to that, but the files do not appear in the directory and the page doesn't load on the browser???

Any thoughts?

Thanks, James

I would say that the httpdocs folder is your root folder when a visitor enters a http:// URL and the httpsdocs folder is for a secure https:// connection.

Are your normal SS site pages in the httpdocs folder? If so, this is where you want to put your test folder. Alternately, try using a https:// connection for the RDTL folder you already have and see if that loads the page.

Thanks the fix was easy once I realized that I was exporting the files "on disk" instead of "my website host(FTP)".

The sample site is up and available just as you were instructing and it is www.mysite/RDTL/index.html where RDTL is the new file in the mix. It has loaded 2 additional folders (geometry and image) to the RDTL folder and they contain all the page architecture.

Thanks again for everybody's help!!! This will work out amazingly well because of the very different time zones and limited access to the internet for my friend.

James

Hi James

I tried the link and I'm getting a page not found. Just in case I tried it wil .htm, rdtl in lower case etc.

Just in case IE was having a fit, I tried it in Firefox also, no joy.

Sorry

James, I think you'll need to provide the correct link. I assume that your site's URL is not www.mysite.com?

Generic link....actual www.jamesbeane.com/RDTL/index.html

Thanks, James

Looks good to me James. The only thing is the 'logo' that has white fringes that don't look to good IMHO. BTW if your friend is ever planning to visit Sweden he should use an alias

Ok somebody's got to ask so it might as well be me.

Why?

(Edit) D'oh! never mind, I get it.