Publish the files in the current web when you are ready to present your web for public viewing, or when you want to update the files in your web. You can publish using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) if the the FrontPage Server Extensions are installed on the Web server to which you are publishing.

Before you publish your web, you can specify which pages you want to publish. Then, when you publish your web, you have the following options:

• Publish only the files that have changed. FrontPage compares the files on your local web to the files on the Web server, and only those files that are newer than those on the Web server are published. However, files that have been marked Don't Publish will not be published.
• Publish all files, except those that have been marked Don't Publish. The files from the local web will overwrite all files on the destination Web server, even if the files on the Web server are newer.

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. Click Options to expand the list of options.
3. Specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.
4. In the Specify the location to publish your web to box, type the location of a Web server, click the arrow to select a location to which you have published before, or click Browse to find the publishing location.
5. Click Publish.

   FrontPage publishes your web. If you want to verify that your web was successfully published, click the hyperlink that is displayed after the web has been published — your Web browser will open to the site you just published.

   If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

Tip To publish only pages that have changed to the same location you previously published to, click Publish

1. Your script permissions are set wrong. Try setting them to 777 temporarily while troubleshooting the error.
2. Your script was uploaded in binary file format instead of ASCII. You must upload Perl and CGI scripts in ASCII format only.
3. Your path to Perl line is wrong. The very first line in your Perl program must be "#!/usr/bin/perl". You cannot have any spaces between your characters, and you cannot have any hard returns or text lines before this line.

If all else fails, you can usually find the script errors by logging in to your server via Telnet and running the script from the command line. Once you are logged into the server, you must change directories until you are in the one in which your script resides. At that point, type the following at the command line:

perl filename.cgi -w

To change permissions you must issue a "change mode command", or more commonly referred to as the UNIX command "chmod". The documentation for your file or script will usually come with the proper permissions you need to set for your program to work. To set permissions, there are basically 2 methods UNIX recognizes.

With FTP (and Telnet) your file properties are shown as -rwxr-xr-x.
The first space designates if this is a directory by the letter "d".
The next three characters designate the permissions for the "owner", r = read, w = write, and x = execute if the permission is set to "on" and "-" is the permission is set to off.
Permissions for the "group" and "world" (other) are designated by characters 5-7 and 8-10 respectively.

The second method we are calling the alpha method because permissions are set, by way of a telnet session, using alpha characters. You simply specify with the group or groups whose settings you want to change ("u" represents "user" or you, "g" represents "group", "o" represents other or world and "a" represents "all") and all the settings you want to change ("r" for read access, "w" for write access, and "x" for execute access). To set your file world-writable, you would type "chmod o+w ". To set it executable to everyone, you would use "chmod a+x <filename>". The plus sign indicates you're adding permissions. You can use a minus sign to remove permissions.

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