wererr.txt not 100% helpful when open web fails

Let's say I have a website created with FrontPage, and it was
published to a URL of the form
www.webhost.com/username/
If I try to open this (as a web) with FP, I enter
http://www.webhost.com/username/
But the open fails, suggesting that I look at wecerr.txt
There I find a 404 not found page from the www.webhost.com ISP.
The rest of this 404 page indicates that the particular page
requested exists not. So FP has gone to the correct remote
server, but has requested the wrong account/page.
What exactly does FP try to do when you open a web via http?
I don't have a local server where I could see what FP is
trying to do.

P.S. the page is there. It also works if you try
www.webhost.com/~username

Is there an index.htm(l) or default.htm(l) page under /username/ ?



--

Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





<u235bomb@ml1.net> wrote in message
news:1183942133.051019.190740@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
| Let's say I have a website created with FrontPage, and it was
| published to a URL of the form
| www.webhost.com/username/
| If I try to open this (as a web) with FP, I enter
| http://www.webhost.com/username/
| But the open fails, suggesting that I look at wecerr.txt
| There I find a 404 not found page from the www.webhost.com ISP.
| The rest of this 404 page indicates that the particular page
| requested exists not. So FP has gone to the correct remote
| server, but has requested the wrong account/page.
| What exactly does FP try to do when you open a web via http?
| I don't have a local server where I could see what FP is
| trying to do.
|
| P.S. the page is there. It also works if you try
| www.webhost.com/~username
|

What happens if you try to open: www.webhost.com


--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm


<u235bomb@ml1.net> wrote in message
news:1183942133.051019.190740@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> Let's say I have a website created with FrontPage, and it was
> published to a URL of the form
> www.webhost.com/username/
> If I try to open this (as a web) with FP, I enter
> http://www.webhost.com/username/
> But the open fails, suggesting that I look at wecerr.txt
> There I find a 404 not found page from the www.webhost.com ISP.
> The rest of this 404 page indicates that the particular page
> requested exists not. So FP has gone to the correct remote
> server, but has requested the wrong account/page.
> What exactly does FP try to do when you open a web via http?
> I don't have a local server where I could see what FP is
> trying to do.
>
> P.S. the page is there. It also works if you try
> www.webhost.com/~username
>

On Jul 9, 11:20 am, "Rob Giordano \(Crash\)"
<webmas...@siriussystems.invalid> wrote:
> Is there an index.htm(l) or default.htm(l) page under /username/ ?
>
> --
>
yes there is index.html
"www.webhost.com" is only a generic name, not the real ISP
it is an Apache server, but has FP extensions