Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Site Administration Help

When working with a large Web site, it's often easier to break up the site into smaller subwebs. A subweb is a complete Microsoft FrontPage-extended Web that is located in a subdirectory of the root Web site or of another subweb. Each subweb can have many levels of subdirectories. A Web that has subwebs is called a parent Web.

A root Web site is a Web site that is the top-level content directory of a Web server or, in a multi-hosting environment, of a virtual Web server. The content of the root Web site can be contained in many levels of subdirectories. However, there is only one root Web site per Web server or virtual Web server.

For example, if a company has an intranet, each major department can have a subweb. That way, each group can manage its own site and the main home page in the parent Web site can provide links between the departmental sites.

There are several benefits to setting up your Web site with subwebs:

Each subweb can be maintained by a different owner.
Each subweb can maintain separate security settings.
Performance can improve, because the time required to recalculate hyperlinks is directly proportional to the number and size of the documents stored in a single Web.

Even though subwebs appear below other Web sites in the Web server's file system and URL space, the content of a subweb is not included in its parent Web site. An author of a Web site does not automatically have permission to edit any of its subwebs, and users cannot browse from a parent Web site to a subweb. FrontPage Server Extensions maintains this separation of content automatically.

About managing subwebs

Using the Site Administration pages you can:

Create or delete subwebs.
Merge subwebs.
Change the name or description of a subweb.
Recalculate the links for a web or subweb.
Specify unique permissions for the subweb or use the user accounts and roles of the parent Web.

Administrative options not available when working in a subweb

If a subweb is set up to use the parent Web site's account and roles, options for managing accounts and roles do not appear.

To configure any of the above options, you must use the site administration pages from the root-level Web site of the server or virtual server. See your network administrator or ISP for more information.

Note When you enable unique permissions, a copy of the parent Web's user accounts and roles remain with the subweb. You can then delete any accounts and roles that you don't want and add new ones as needed. The subweb will also retain the same user role setting for anonymous (guest) users as the parent Web unless you specify a different role.

Enable or disable unique permissions for a subweb

Administrative options not available when working in a subweb