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IIS/FP-Allow users to upgrade pages

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by jerilyn1 1 view

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I'm running FrontPage on an NT 4 IIS Server. I would like to have users upgrade certain pages themselves. How do I do this and not have them access other pages. Is there more than one way to do this? And, if so, what are to pros and cons.

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by mmiller

The first way would be to set the permission on the individual pages to only allow write/change access to the users who can update the pages. The biggest problem with this is that every content item (HTML page, images, etc.) would need to have the permissions manually set.

The second way would be to setup sites/folders under the root, and then set the permissions on the entire folder. Unfortunately, with Frontpage 98 you can only have sub-folders (one-level deep); so if you have a lot of pages/sites this could make you wwwroot folder a mess.

Another idea (but kinda of overkill) is to setup Site Server, and use the membership/content publishing features to allow the users to upload the pages, and then you can define the workflow for approval and publication to the site.

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