Best way to support a remote webmaster over the internet on IIS6

Hello,

I am currently running an II6 web site on windows server 2003 web edition.
I have been using front page do author the site from the inside of the
firewall for the last few years. I have hired a web developer to create a
better page and I need to allow him to be able to author the site from over
the internet. I believe that he is using Dreamweaver.

What is the best way to allow him to be able to author the site from over
the internet? I am guessing that he can not use FrontPage server extension.
Do I have to create an FTP site to allow him to update content?

Thanks

Re: Best way to support a remote webmaster over the internet on IIS6

Well, switching from FrontPage to DreamWeaver may very well include a
re-write of significant portions of the site.

So before you do that, you will want to asses what is likely to happen for
editing and who is doing it and so on.

Typically, DreamWeaver users work over FTP. So you would need to uninstall
the FrontPage extensions and set up an FTP server, and open the ports in
your firewall for that.

If you can view the web site from the outside, you can already edit with
FrontPage from the outside. No firewall changes would be necessary for
that.

DreamWeaver does have the capacity to open a site using "WebDav" which is
the underlying protocol used for FrontPage. (At least older versions did, I
haven't had the misfortune of using the new, over priced over hyped suite
yet.) However, since DreamWeaver won't understand some of the FrontPage
specific stuff, is likely to corrupt the FrontPage extensions. (And cause
your themes, forms, include bots, etc. to all stop working).

So really it comes down to two questions: How do you intend to run the site
in the future, and do you have a good handle on how much stuff is going to
have to get re-written to work with DreamWeaver. (So don't think the new
editor is going to be able to start adding new stuff right away, they'll
have to spend considerable time just re-doing stuff in the "DreamWeaver way"
first.)

"Tony" wrote in message
news:utnhG24zHHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I am currently running an II6 web site on windows server 2003 web edition.
> I have been using front page do author the site from the inside of the
> firewall for the last few years. I have hired a web developer to create a
> better page and I need to allow him to be able to author the site from
> over the internet. I believe that he is using Dreamweaver.
>
> What is the best way to allow him to be able to author the site from over
> the internet? I am guessing that he can not use FrontPage server
> extension. Do I have to create an FTP site to allow him to update content?
>
> Thanks
>

Re: Best way to support a remote webmaster over the internet on IIS6

Thank you for your reply,

The new web page author is totally redoing the site and they are going to be
responsible at least initially for doing the updates.

It sounds like I will need to be setting up a FTP server then, I was a
little worried about FTP and sending passwords over the internet but I
suppose that it is common.

Would WebDav be a more secure way for allowing him to author the site over
the internet?

I have not used DreamWeaver for a long time and I have been using FrontPage
to do the authoring of the site but it has been determined that we need a
more artsy site and the company that was chosen does not use Frontpage they
use DreamWeaver.


".._.." <.._..@yourmom.mil> wrote in message
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>
> Well, switching from FrontPage to DreamWeaver may very well include a
> re-write of significant portions of the site.
>
> So before you do that, you will want to asses what is likely to happen for
> editing and who is doing it and so on.
>
> Typically, DreamWeaver users work over FTP. So you would need to
> uninstall the FrontPage extensions and set up an FTP server, and open the
> ports in your firewall for that.
>
> If you can view the web site from the outside, you can already edit with
> FrontPage from the outside. No firewall changes would be necessary for
> that.
>
> DreamWeaver does have the capacity to open a site using "WebDav" which is
> the underlying protocol used for FrontPage. (At least older versions did,
> I haven't had the misfortune of using the new, over priced over hyped
> suite yet.) However, since DreamWeaver won't understand some of the
> FrontPage specific stuff, is likely to corrupt the FrontPage extensions.
> (And cause your themes, forms, include bots, etc. to all stop working).
>
> So really it comes down to two questions: How do you intend to run the
> site in the future, and do you have a good handle on how much stuff is
> going to have to get re-written to work with DreamWeaver. (So don't think
> the new editor is going to be able to start adding new stuff right away,
> they'll have to spend considerable time just re-doing stuff in the
> "DreamWeaver way" first.)
>
> "Tony" wrote in message
> news:utnhG24zHHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently running an II6 web site on windows server 2003 web
>> edition. I have been using front page do author the site from the inside
>> of the firewall for the last few years. I have hired a web developer to
>> create a better page and I need to allow him to be able to author the
>> site from over the internet. I believe that he is using Dreamweaver.
>>
>> What is the best way to allow him to be able to author the site from over
>> the internet? I am guessing that he can not use FrontPage server
>> extension. Do I have to create an FTP site to allow him to update
>> content?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

Re: Best way to support a remote webmaster over the internet on IIS6

FrontPage or FTP are two ways of transferring files. I'm assuming he does
not need to change IIS. Then either of those ways are acceptable. I've
never implemented WebDAV on IIS so I can't speak to that. You could look at
FileZilla server edition, this has SSL features. Along with using CoreFTP,
which is a good SSL client, this standard secure solution.

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"Tony" wrote in message
news:utnhG24zHHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I am currently running an II6 web site on windows server 2003 web edition.
> I have been using front page do author the site from the inside of the
> firewall for the last few years. I have hired a web developer to create a
> better page and I need to allow him to be able to author the site from
> over the internet. I believe that he is using Dreamweaver.
>
> What is the best way to allow him to be able to author the site from over
> the internet? I am guessing that he can not use FrontPage server
> extension. Do I have to create an FTP site to allow him to update content?
>
> Thanks
>

Re: Best way to support a remote webmaster over the internet on IIS6

"Tony" wrote in message
news:eoAk7o5zHHA.5772@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Thank you for your reply,
>
> The new web page author is totally redoing the site and they are going to
> be responsible at least initially for doing the updates.
>
> It sounds like I will need to be setting up a FTP server then, I was a
> little worried about FTP and sending passwords over the internet but I
> suppose that it is common.

When you worry about security, it's important to get down and dirty and be
_specific_ about what threats you are trying to mitigate. As an analogy, a
seat-belt helps me stay alive in a car accident, but sorta won't make a
difference if I drive my car into water.

So, what are you worried about? Someone sniffing packets and getting the
user/pass? Or are you worried about someone hacking into the web site?

>
> Would WebDav be a more secure way for allowing him to author the site over
> the internet?

No. They both authenticate with user/pass in plain text (which is what the
people telling you it's "inscure" are trying to say).

You can however, if you have a digital certificate run WebDav over HTTPS,
which will encrypt the entire session including the user/pass login.

>
> I have not used DreamWeaver for a long time and I have been using
> FrontPage to do the authoring of the site but it has been determined that
> we need a more artsy site and the company that was chosen does not use
> Frontpage they use DreamWeaver.
>
>
> ".._.." <.._..@yourmom.mil> wrote in message
> news:k52qi.36841$G23.17083@newsreading01.news.tds.net...
>>
>> Well, switching from FrontPage to DreamWeaver may very well include a
>> re-write of significant portions of the site.
>>
>> So before you do that, you will want to asses what is likely to happen
>> for editing and who is doing it and so on.
>>
>> Typically, DreamWeaver users work over FTP. So you would need to
>> uninstall the FrontPage extensions and set up an FTP server, and open the
>> ports in your firewall for that.
>>
>> If you can view the web site from the outside, you can already edit with
>> FrontPage from the outside. No firewall changes would be necessary for
>> that.
>>
>> DreamWeaver does have the capacity to open a site using "WebDav" which is
>> the underlying protocol used for FrontPage. (At least older versions
>> did, I haven't had the misfortune of using the new, over priced over
>> hyped suite yet.) However, since DreamWeaver won't understand some of the
>> FrontPage specific stuff, is likely to corrupt the FrontPage extensions.
>> (And cause your themes, forms, include bots, etc. to all stop working).
>>
>> So really it comes down to two questions: How do you intend to run the
>> site in the future, and do you have a good handle on how much stuff is
>> going to have to get re-written to work with DreamWeaver. (So don't
>> think the new editor is going to be able to start adding new stuff right
>> away, they'll have to spend considerable time just re-doing stuff in the
>> "DreamWeaver way" first.)
>>
>> "Tony" wrote in message
>> news:utnhG24zHHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am currently running an II6 web site on windows server 2003 web
>>> edition. I have been using front page do author the site from the inside
>>> of the firewall for the last few years. I have hired a web developer to
>>> create a better page and I need to allow him to be able to author the
>>> site from over the internet. I believe that he is using Dreamweaver.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to allow him to be able to author the site from
>>> over the internet? I am guessing that he can not use FrontPage server
>>> extension. Do I have to create an FTP site to allow him to update
>>> content?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>
>
>