Q: How
can I remove the FrontPage extensions from my virtual server?
A: To remove the FrontPage extensions
from your virtual server, Telnet to your virtual server and type the following
at the command prompt:
% fpnuke
This command removes the FrontPage core extension files, as well as all of the
FrontPage configuration directories (the "_" directories). Note that
once you remove the FrontPage extensions, any pages on your site that use
FrontPage components will no longer function.
Q: I
am having problems with feedback forms using FrontPage 98. Do you have a
list of known bug fixes?
A: RSH Web Services technical support
has found several fixes for problems with feedback forms:
1) The error message reads : Your FrontPage Server Extentions have not been
configured to send e-mail. Please direct your system administrator or Internet
service provider to follow the instructions at "Setting Up Your E-mail
Transport" in the SERKenuadmin.htm file on the Frontpage CD-ROM.
2) Solution: Anytime this issue comes up, add the following to:
~/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/frontpage.cnf
SendmailCommand:/bin/sendmail %r
This will solve the problem.
Q: I
attempted to publish a simple FrontPage subweb to my server but FrontPage
came back with the following error. "Server error: FrontPage Security
Violation". What can I do to correct this?
A: Due to limitations of the
FrontPage extensions in the UNIX environment, if you wish to publish via
FrontPage, you must do so either by using the FTP protocol or by creating the
page while connected “on-line” and saving the page in the FrontPage
Editor, rather then publishing a page created on your local Web to your
virtual server. If you upload a FrontPage Web via the FTP method, the
FrontPage extensions will be bypassed, however, and your FrontPage components
will not function correctly. You can side-step this problem by first uploading
your FrontPage Web via FTP and then connecting to the FrontPage Web online via
the FrontPage explorer and “save” the files, which will then republish the
pages and include any necessary FrontPage extension settings that are needed.
Q: I
get an error message when I save a page using FrontPage 98.
A: On UNIX servers, the following
errors occur when you save the page:
"The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet
service provider or web server administrator to make sure the server has the
FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific information, click
Details."
Details shows:
500 Internal Server Error
The UNIX server reports the following in its error log:
Premature end of script headers:
/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/
apache-fp/_vti_bin/fpexe
Cause
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FrontPage 98 for Windows.
This problem occurs when you have includes within your shared borders.
FrontPage will occasionally double-parse a document, transferring information
between the first and second parse. Include bots must identify their parent
document, but because shared borders act as temporary parent documents, the
communication may fail between parses.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, delete the page in the Web that has the shared
border with the include in either the Table of Contents or Form with
Validation, and then recalculate hyperlinks.
You can put the Table of Contents or Form with Validation on a page that does
not have a shared border with an include in it or remove the include from the
shared borders.
Q: How
much disk space does an installation of the FrontPage 98 extensions use on
a virtual server?
A: If a user decides to install the
FrontPage 98 extensions from Microsoft, they will take up 11.5MB of disk
space.
Q: Will
Web sites created with FrontPage 2000 run on Web servers running the
FrontPage 98 Server Extensions?
A: Yes, basic Web sites created with
FrontPage 2000 will run without problems on FrontPage 98-extended Webs.
However, some of the new functionality in FrontPage 2000 requires the
FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.
The following features require the FrontPage Server Extensions:
Database Results Wizard
Send To Database Form Handler
Nested Sub webs
Lightweight Source Control (Document Check-in /Check-out without VSS)
Categories Component
StyleSheet links to multiple files or ASP files
In addition, the following components require at least an earlier version of
the FrontPage Server Extensions:
Confirmation Field
Discussion Form Handler
FrontPage created server-side Image Maps
Hit Counter
Registration Form Handler
Save Results Form Handler
Search Form
Q: What
are the FrontPage Server Extensions?
A: The Server Extensions for the
Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool are a set of
server-side applications that do the following:
1) Allow multiple users simultaneously collaborate on the same Web site
2) Allow users to author using FrontPage directly against a Web server
3) Enable Microsoft Office 2000 applications to save directly to a Web server
Let users include the following components in FrontPage on their sites: forms
handler component, discussion component, full text search component and hit
counter component
This prepackaged functionality lets users incorporate these advanced features
without having to write the complex server-side programs typically required.
FrontPage is the only Web site creation and management tool that offers all of
these features.