About Webs and subwebs
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-based Web site that is
located in a subdirectory of the root Web site or of another subweb. Each subweb
can have many levels of subdirectories.
A root Web site is an FrontPage-based 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 server.
For example, if a company has an intranet, a good strategy is to have a
subweb for each major department. That way, each group can manage their own site
and the main home page in the parent Web site can provide links among the
departmental sites.
There are several benefits to setting up your Web sites 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 an
FrontPage-based 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 2002 maintains this separation of content automatically.
There are many factors to consider when organizing your Web server's content into sub-areas.
In general, you should create a virtual server when:
- You want the content area to have its own root-level Web name. For example, http://server-name.
- You believe the content will increase greatly over time.
You should create a subweb when:
- Having a root-level Web name isn't important. For example, http://server-name/subweb.
- You are dividing your content up into relatively small areas with no major growth anticipated.
To create a new virtual server, you use the Apache tools for UNIX.
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