port 80

[Jacqui]

I have just purchased a new laptop. I use front page 98
and when I loaded the program onto the lap top I
just keep getting a message saying " no server at
port 80 " I found some in structions on how to help
i.e my computer r/click then properties . then device
manager .. Now thats where the help ends as I dont
have a tab called device manager .Can any one help
Thanks in advance
Jacqui

 

[Jacqui]

sorry I put the wrong e.maill addy for replies it
should be (e-mail address removed)
and yes I am blond but no not dumb I think

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If the laptop is running Windows XP Home, then no MS web server is supported or FP extensions and
you will have to use FP98 to work with disk-based webs, which it was not design to do.

If the laptop is running Windows XP Pro, you have to install IIS under Add/Remove Windows
Components.

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[Jacqui]

Thank you for your help . I am not tec minded
please can you tell me what you mean by "work with
disk-based webs " and how to do it Thanks again

-----Original Message-----
If the laptop is running Windows XP Home, then no MS web

server is supported or FP extensions and

you will have to use FP98 to work with disk-based webs, which it was not design to do.

If the laptop is running Windows XP Pro, you have to

install IIS under Add/Remove Windows

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

A disk-based web is one that you access by drive letter, such as c:\My Documents\My Webs\webname or
c:\mywebname via FPExplorer.

Keep in mind that FP98 is really not designed to be used in this manner and you should consider
upgrading to a more recent version, FP2000, FP2002 if you can find them or the current version,
FP2003.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Andrew Murray]

Disk based web is on your computer and uses a pathname such as "C:\my
webs\web\home.htm" rather than "http://localhost/web/home.htm" which if
configured properly would be available to the world. It is still a web site on
your physical computer, but effectively makes your computer act as a web server.

Frontpage 98 had included with it a product called "Personal Web Server" which it
needed for you to develop web pages (hence the 'cannot find port 80' error).
There is something in the way you have set up Frontpage or your web that it
doesn't like, but I don't use that version so I can't help you solve the issue.

Frontpage 98 won't work with disk based webs, it only will create a web site
using an address like http://localhost or similar, not "C:/my webs/web/home.htm",
and needs the personal web server running.

Later versions of Frontpage have dropped the need for a web server (for
development) but needs a server to preview server extensions features used (as
well as Active Server Pages).

So if you have Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional, IIS can be run on your
computer, effectively making it a web server, for the purposes of testing the
full functionality of the site before you upload to your actual server or host.

I don't know if this makes much sense; perhaps one of the other experts can
explain 'ports' and 'disk based webs' better.