I hope someone can help me. I have Windows XP Pro & Frontpage 2000.
I have operated my website off this successfully for 8 months, however the
last few days I have been unable to Upload to my website and it is now
getting in desperate need of updating.

It says "connecting to Tiscali", then about a second or 2 later it lists
pages on route directory on my pc,
and then says "listing pages on ftp://ftp.myweb.tiscali.co.uk:21... but it
just stays there for 30 secs-1 min until the error message appears.

I get this after trying to make changes to "Changed pages only".
I have tried doing "Publish all pages overwriting any already on the
destination" but that doesnt work either, although I get a different error
message.

I dont know if this is connected but I installed XP Service Pack 2 1-2 days
before the uploading problems started, although I am sure I had managed to
update my website once or twice after that. I tried uninstalling Frontpage
and then reinstalling it. Something of interest happened there. During
installation a message appeared saying "Unable to access configuration for
Microsoft Personal Web Server" although in the end it said installation
successful. After doing some reading I realised that XP Pro doesnt support
Personal Web Servers and you have to run it off IIP? (Within Add/Remove progs
Windows components). I installed that and then installed Frontpage 2000 and
this time the error message didnt appear, so I thought "Yeah! solved but no
I tried uploading again on a restart and the same errors appear.

Can anyone out there help me? :-( Many thanks for reading.

By default the Firewall in XP SP2 blocks the ports used for FTP.
In Control Panel | Internet Connections | Advanced, place a checkmark by
"Use Passive FTP".
Or you can open port 21 and 22 in the Firewall.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ProfRogers [private.php?do=newpm&u=]
> Posted At: 11. oktober 2004 18:39
> Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
> Conversation: 425 Cant Build Data Connection - Help! :-(
> Subject: 425 Cant Build Data Connection - Help! :-(
>
>
> I hope someone can help me. I have Windows XP Pro & Frontpage 2000.
> I have operated my website off this successfully for 8
> months, however the last few days I have been unable to
> Upload to my website and it is now getting in desperate need
> of updating.
>
> It says "connecting to Tiscali", then about a second or 2
> later it lists pages on route directory on my pc, and then
> says "listing pages on ftp://ftp.myweb.tiscali.co.uk:21...
> but it just stays there for 30 secs-1 min until the error
> message appears.
>
> I get this after trying to make changes to "Changed pages only".
> I have tried doing "Publish all pages overwriting any already
> on the destination" but that doesnt work either, although I
> get a different error message.
>
> I dont know if this is connected but I installed XP Service
> Pack 2 1-2 days before the uploading problems started,
> although I am sure I had managed to update my website once or
> twice after that. I tried uninstalling Frontpage and then
> reinstalling it. Something of interest happened there.
> During installation a message appeared saying "Unable to
> access configuration for Microsoft Personal Web Server"
> although in the end it said installation successful. After
> doing some reading I realised that XP Pro doesnt support
> Personal Web Servers and you have to run it off IIP? (Within
> Add/Remove progs Windows components). I installed that and
> then installed Frontpage 2000 and this time the error message
> didnt appear, so I thought "Yeah! solved but no I tried
> uploading again on a restart and the same errors appear.
>
> Can anyone out there help me? :-( Many thanks for reading.
>