A large part of my problem getting my IIS home server working in conjunction with FP Extensions is that IIS Help & FP Help have no instructions on how to get a discussion web to work with FP Extensions. Many people are having the same problem. In particular, the right click on Default Web Server in IIS 5.1 on new has a command to create a server extensions web and a server extensions adminstrator.

All tasks has commands to extend extensions, check extensions, recalculate extensions. I haven't found where these are descibed how to use, with the result that most of us are trying anything we think will stick to avoid getting a web component extensions not installed error but failing miserably

IIS Help/index under Front Page/Front Page Server Extensions may have something which spells this out. It refers to a FP Server Extensions Resouce kit (assume a users guide) at web site. http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk
However, that is an invalid page.

It's also supposed to be in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\40\Serk\1033\default.htm (I assume as a result of installing FP Server extensions 2002). However there is no serk folder.

Any ideas?

Regard, Ron

Once you and your many confused friends have installed the
FrontPage Server Extensions on a Web server, the steps to
create a discussion Web are:

1. Start the FrotnPage desktop software:
2. In FP2002, choose New fromteh File menu, and then
Page or Web. Then, in the New Page Or Web task pane,
click Web Site Templates.
In FP2003, choose New from the File menu. Then, in the
New Task Pane, click More Web Site Templates.
3. When the Web Site Templates dialog box appears,
Select Discussion Web Wizard.
4. Under Specify The Location Of The New Web, enter
the fully qualified URL you want. For example, enter
http://localhost/myboard or
http://www.myserver.com/myboard
5. Click OK and respond to the prompts.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>A large part of my problem getting my IIS home server
>working in conjunction with FP Extensions is that IIS
>Help & FP Help have no instructions on how to get a
>discussion web to work with FP Extensions. Many people
>are having the same problem. In particular, the right
>click on Default Web Server in IIS 5.1 on new has a
>command to create a server extensions web and a server
>extensions adminstrator.
>
>All tasks has commands to extend extensions, check
>extensions, recalculate extensions. I haven't found
>where these are descibed how to use, with the result
>that most of us are trying anything we think will stick
>to avoid getting a web component extensions not installed
>error but failing miserably
>
>IIS Help/index under Front Page/Front Page Server
>Extensions may have something which spells this out.
>It refers to a FP Server Extensions Resouce kit (assume
>a users guide) at web site.
>http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk
>However, that is an invalid page.
>
>It's also supposed to be in C:\Program Files\Common
>Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\40\Serk\
>1033\default.htm (I assume as a result of installing FP
>Server extensions 2002). However there is no serk
>folder.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Regard, Ron
>
>
>
>
>.
>

Thanks Jim. I had created a discussion web 3 weeks ago using your method but could never get it to work. Thanks to step by step from Thomas Rowe 3 days ago (attached below), I am now successfully test posts. In analyzing where I've gone so horribly wrong with IIS/FP Extensions interaction, I find I got started down some blind alleys I think due to what I believe was due to no instructions in either IIS Help or Front Page 2002 Help, not on installing the extensions via download, but in what I know now are configuring them. Hence my question about wanting to print out the resource ki

I'd appreciate if you could point out to me where in IIS Help or Front Page Help index/contents it says anything about the multitude of functions in the right click of IIS Default Web Site add or new tasks, esp about configuring and add new fp extensions we

Also, it seems to me my original post pointed up an error in that the link to the Resource Kit is a dead end, and the file that is supposed to be on my hard drive is non-existant

I'm not trying to get running; I'm already there. I'm trying to reconstruct my failure and find out where the Users Guide is
(Not this board which has been great, but something in IIS or FP Help programs which is where us users usually first go to when we get in a ja

Regards, Ro

Attachment
Tom Row
Do the following

1. Uninstall the FP2002 extensions from your syste
2. Uninstall IIS and delete the C:\InetPub folde

Next (and do not change the default port from 80 to 79 or install the FP200
extensions!

1. Install II
2. Open IIS MMC, and right click on the default web site, All tasks, appl
the FP2000 extensions
3. Open FP, then File Menu | Open Web and enter http://localhos
4. Create a folder, called Test, right click on Test, select convert to web
then double click to open in FP
5. With Test open, File Menu | New | Page or Web | Web Site Template
Discussion Web and enter the path/location as http://localhost/Test/DiscWe
6. Open IE, and type in http://localhost/test/discweb

Now if everything is working, you can install the FP2002 extensions, the
you must open IIS MMC and select each web, then All Tasks, then Upgrade th
extensions

What is your reason for trying to change the port

>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks Jim. I had created a discussion web 3 weeks ago
>using your method but could never get it to work. Thanks
>to step by step from Thomas Rowe 3 days ago (attached
>below), I am now successfully test posts. In analyzing
>where I've gone so horribly wrong with IIS/FP Extensions
>interaction, I find I got started down some blind alleys
>I think due to what I believe was due to no instructions
>in either IIS Help or Front Page 2002 Help, not on
>installing the extensions via download, but in what I
>know now are configuring them. Hence my question about
>wanting to print out the resource kit
>
>I'd appreciate if you could point out to me where in IIS
>Help or Front Page Help index/contents it says anything
>about the multitude of functions in the right click of
>IIS Default Web Site add or new tasks, esp about
>configuring and add new fp extensions web

Most of the FrontPage commands in IIS manager are just
convenience links to the Web-based administration pages.
They probably wouldn't even be there except for
compatibility with past releases.

The documentation for each function, therefore, is bundled
in with the Web-based administration pages. You can find
this on-line at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...sppt/sharepnt/
proddocs/admindoc/ows000.asp

or by clicking the Help links on the administration pages
themselves.

You can get to the administration pages either by:
o In the FrontPage desktop software, choosing Server
from the Tools menu,and then Administration.
o In IIS Manager, right-clicking the Web site, then
choosing Properties, then selecting the Server
Extensions 2002 tab, then clicking Settings.

>Also, it seems to me my original post pointed up an error
>in that the link to the Resource Kit is a dead end, and
>the file that is supposed to be on my hard drive is
>non-existent.

The "40" in the file path you mentioned denotes FrontPage
2000. That's probably the source of your confusion.

>I'm not trying to get running; I'm already there. I'm
>trying to reconstruct my failure and find out where the
>Users Guide is. (Not this board which has been great, but
>something in IIS or FP Help programs which is where us
>users usually first go to when we get in a jam

The Help links in the administration Web pages are a good
start, as is the link I posted above.

FWIW, I think you jumped into the internals of the server
extensions much faster than most people. Most people run
the FPSE setup program, bring up the Administration Web
pages, and configure everything from there.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------