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Configuring IIS 6.0 for FrontPage

Rahul Shah, Contributor
03.19.2007
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The Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Web server uses a set of proprietary server-side DLLs, called FrontPage Extensions. These extensions support many features of the FrontPage Web content creation tool, such as its ability to create navigation bars, search tools and discussion Webs.

In IIS 6.0, this is a basic Web server administration task for networks where developers use FrontPage. (Microsoft discontinued FrontPage as an authoring tool in 2006, but FrontPage Extensions are an optional component of IIS.)

Before you can enable FrontPage Extensions, you have to install them. Then you need to enable these extensions on the specific Web sites that your FrontPage content dev

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Once the FrontPage Extensions are installed, you'll see that a number of new files and directories have been created and added to your site. Don't delete any of these FrontPage files or directories; if you do, the server extensions might not work properly.

About the author: Rahul Shah currently works at a software firm in India, where he is a systems administrator maintaining Windows servers. He has also worked for various software firms in testing and analytics, and also has experiences deploying client/server applications in different Windows configurations.

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