Q194400: FP98: Command-Line Arguments for Server Administrator
Article: Q194400
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): WINDOWS:
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Keyword(s): kbdta
Last Modified: 03-OCT-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
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For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see Q247864.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see Q164584.
SUMMARY
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FrontPage Server Administrator is available in two forms:
- The first form is Fpsrvwin.exe, which is a Windows application.
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- The second form is Fpsrvadm.exe, which is a command-line only version of the
server administrator.
To view the command-line options for Fpsrvadm.exe, point to Programs on the
Windows Start menu, and then click MS-DOS prompt. At the MS-DOS prompt, go to
the \Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\Bin folder, and then type the following:
" Fpsrvadm -h " (without the quotation marks)
This article describes the command-line arguments available to both forms of the
FrontPage Server Administrator.
MORE INFORMATION
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Fpsrvadm.exe
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Fpsrvadm.exe is an MS-DOS and UNIX application, which supports the following
command-line arguments:
Usage: fpsrvadm [-help]
[-operation <install | upgrade | uninstall | check |
security |enable | disable | recalc | putfile |
recalcfile>]
[-port <nnnn>]
[-web <web name>]
[-root <frontpage root directory>]
[-type <ncsa | ncsa-manual-restart
| apache | apache-manual-restart
| cern | cern-manual-restart
| netscape | netscape-manual-restart>]
[-servconf <server config file>]
[-multihost <hostname>]
[-username <username>]
[-password <password>]
[-ipaddress <IP address>]
[-destination <destination Url>]
[-filename <file name>]
[-xUser <UNIX username>]
[-xGroup <UNIX group>]
[-noChownContent Yes]
You can shorten the command-line arguments by using the first letter of each
command, with the exception of Password, which uses "-pw", xUser, which uses
"-xu", and xGroup, which uses "-xg".
Examples of command-line arguments for Fpsrvadm.exe
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fpsrvadm -o install -r "c:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage"
-t frontpage -u user -pw password
-s "c:\FrontPage Webs\server\conf\httpd.cnf" -m ""
fpsrvadm -o install -p 80 -w webname (sub web)
fpsrvadm -o upgrade -p 80
fpsrvadm -o uninstall -p 80
fpsrvadm -o check -p 80
fpsrvadm -o check -p all
fpsrvadm -o disable -p 80
fpsrvadm -o security -p 80 -w webname -u username -pw password
-i ipaddress
fpsrvadm -o recalc -p 80 -w webname
fpsrvadm -o putfile -p 80 -w webname -d url -f filename
fpsrvadm -o recalcfile -p 80 -w webname -d url
If Fpsrvadm needs additional information, you will be prompted to enter this
information at the MS-DOS prompt.
NOTE: The following server types are not documented in the Fpsrvadm Help file.
The FrontPage Server Administrator retrieves these server types from DLLs
installed on the server system when you install the FrontPage Server
Extensions:
Microsoft Internet Information Server msiis
Microsoft Personal Web Server msiis
Microsoft Peer Web Services msiis
O'Reilly & Associates WebSite website
Netscape Commerce netscape-commerce
Netscape Communications netscape-communications
Netscape FastTrack netscape-fasttrack
Netscape Enterprise netscape-enterprise
FrontPage Personal Web Server frontpage
Of the supported Web servers on Windows NT or Windows 95 operating systems, the
only servers that require configuration files are Netscape and the FrontPage
Personal Web Server. When you install extensions with Fpsrvadm or Fpsrvwin to
other servers on these operating systems, you may omit the configuration file
option.
Paths that contain spaces must be enclosed within quotation marks (""). For
example, assuming FrontPage is installed in the c:\Microsoft FrontPage folder,
the following command will fail:
fpsrvadm -r c:\microsoft frontpage
but this command will not fail:
fpsrvadm -r "c:\microsoft frontpage"
The destination and filename arguments are only used with the putfile and
recalcfile options. These arguments are used when you place content into a
FrontPage Web without using FrontPage Explorer. The filename argument accepts
the name of the file you want to place into the Web. The destination file
accepts the destination URL or the Web for which you want to recalculate links.
The recalcfile option recalculates the Web links going to or from a given file.
You can use this as a substitute for recalculating an entire Web if only one or
a few files have changed. The putfile option places a file into a FrontPage Web
using Fpsrvadm.
The ipaddress argument limits access to the web server based on the IP address.
This feature of FrontPage Server Administrator is not available on Microsoft
Internet Information Servers (IIS).
Fpsrvwin.exe
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Fpsrvwin.exe takes only a subset of the arguments available to Fpsrvadm.exe. The
reason is that Fpsrvwin functionality was intended to support the setup program.
Microsoft recommends using Fpsrvadm for batch mode server administrator
operation. Future versions of Fpsrvwin may not support command-line arguments.
Fpsrvwin command-line functionality only supports install, upgrade, and uninstall
because these are the operations necessary from FrontPage setup. The command
line options for Fpsrvwin.exe are:
-o -operation <install | upgrade | uninstall>
-p -port <nnnn>
-m -multihost <hostname>
-ma -multihost-all
-w -webname <web name>
-t -type <frontpage | microsoft | website | netscape |
netscape-enterprise ...>
-s -servconf
If Fpsrvwin needs additional information not provided by its command-line
options, it will prompt you for the information.
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