Getting ready to pull my hair out with IIS 6.0 and FPSE

[Brian Boguhn]

I posted this over in the IIS group, but thought perhaps someone over
here might have some insight as well...

Any assistance with the following is appreciated.

I installed a brand new clean Windows Server 2003 Standard system. I
then went through the Manage Your Server wizard and installed IIS and
the FPSE. So far, so good. Going to a web browser, I can open the
default page for http://myserver.

Here's where the fun starts. There's actually two parts, but I think
solving one would probably fix the other as well, so here goes...

- After doing the above, I used the IIS 6.0 migration tool to move an
existing IIS 5.0 installation to the new server. The tool told me the
migration was successful, and indeed, I could access my pages. The
issue arose, however, when trying to access pages that used FrontPage
components (in this case, specifically, a search page). If I entered
something into the search, I would get a page not found error back
listing a script that wasn't on the system. However, this script does
exist on the old IIS installation.

- After fooling with the above for a while and getting nowhere, I
uninstalled IIS and FPSE completely and then did a fresh install. At
this point, I created a new web and created several pages, including a
search page. I browsed to the web, went to the search page, tried to
search, and...I'm told I'm trying to use a component that requires
FPSE installed on the server. However, the FPSE ARE installed.

What am I missing here? I've been digging through Technet and going
through newsgroups and such trying to figure this out, and finding a
lot of stuff, but never getting to the answer. The two instances
above are streamlined down to the essentials; this has been over a
week of work and still no success in having a working site. I don't
recall my IIS 4.0 and 5.0 sites being difficult to get going at all.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have you enabled/installed Index Server and created a Index Catalog for the site?

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[Brian Boguhn]

Tom,
Umm...<kicks self in rear>...no.

Thanks for the hint, I'll try that.

Brian

 

[Brian Boguhn]

Argh. Indexing is installed and running. When I try to do a search,
I get the following page:

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid
method (HTTP verb) was used to attempt access.
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Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe that this request
should be allowed.
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of
your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
HTTP Error 405 - The HTTP verb used to access this page is not
allowed.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

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Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search
for the words HTTP and 405.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and
search for topics titled Setting Application Mappings, Securing Your
Site with Web Site Permissions, and About Custom Error Messages.



The page is trying to access this script: search_page.html0.idq. It
doesn't exist, and I just don't know why.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

You'd probably get better help in the Index Server newsgroup.
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