425 Cant Build Data Connection - Help! :-(

[Guest]

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.

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

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.