Bizzare Publishing problem

[Guest]

Our Technical support site needed revamping, so I setup an area on our FrontPage Intranet for them to redesign a site using a subweb on the Intranet. Things are great on the intranet site, the service dept can open the web directly and make any changes create forms, modify, etc. My plan was to then take this sub web and publish it to our webserver. The webserver is an NT4sp6a and I installed 2003 Ext without a problem. I deleted the old web in IIS, created a brand new web which I then converted to a FP web. Then I opened the Intranet subweb and published to the new blank FP site. The website publishes successfully according to FP 2000 (which we are using to develop the web).
Now check out the bizzare result
www.melco-service.co
the bizzare thing is that if you refresh the website as FP is publishing it looks good! it is not until is "publishes successfully" does it get hosed up

I have already reinstalled the extensions twice, as well as deleted and recreated the website. I have also recalculated links and republished, as well as deleted the files on the server (using webfolders) and republised. One thing that I did run into a problem with is that I read an article about pubishing to a local folder first, then publishing from the local webfolder up to the webserver. I get the following error when this is attempted: "An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters - please see the server's system log for more details.
There's nothing Fp related in the system log but in the App log "Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
Received empty response from Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
This is in addition to the normal warning message FP gives when publishing to a site where Extensions are not found

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[Steve Easton]

It's because the file path is incorrect for the images that do not show.
http://www.melco-service.com/_borders/images/Samples.jpg
is the incorrect path

http://www.melco-service.com/images/Samples.jpg
is the correct one.

How _borders got into the file path escapes me, but relink the images and
republish.


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Our Technical support site needed revamping, so I setup an area on our

FrontPage Intranet for them to redesign a site using a subweb on the Intranet.
Things are great on the intranet site, the service dept can open the web
directly and make any changes create forms, modify, etc. My plan was to then
take this sub web and publish it to our webserver. The webserver is an NT4sp6a
and I installed 2003 Ext without a problem. I deleted the old web in IIS,
created a brand new web which I then converted to a FP web. Then I opened the
Intranet subweb and published to the new blank FP site. The website publishes
successfully according to FP 2000 (which we are using to develop the web).

Now check out the bizzare result:
www.melco-service.com
the bizzare thing is that if you refresh the website as FP is publishing it

looks good! it is not until is "publishes successfully" does it get hosed up.

I have already reinstalled the extensions twice, as well as deleted and

recreated the website. I have also recalculated links and republished, as well
as deleted the files on the server (using webfolders) and republised. One thing
that I did run into a problem with is that I read an article about pubishing to
a local folder first, then publishing from the local webfolder up to the
webserver. I get the following error when this is attempted: "An error occurred
accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server,
please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters - please see the
server's system log for more details."

There's nothing Fp related in the system log but in the App log "Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions:
Received empty response from Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions"
This is in addition to the normal warning message FP gives when publishing to

a site where Extensions are not found.

 

[Steve Easton]

Aah, now I see what you mean. Yes this is an extensions issue.

The latest extensions are 2002 as there are no 2003 extensions.

Have you checked for an update for the extensions, or downloaded the latest
version??
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...45-1884-4a16-a8cb-25d2f0815fa3&DisplayLang=en



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Steve, thanks for your quick reply.

I understand what you are saying, however FrontPage apparently does not.
I can open the web using FP on the webserver and the web looks correct (even

the links to the images are correct). The same is true on the internal web.

 

[Guest]

Steve

Sorry yes I do mean Extensions 2002, and yes I just downloaded and installed the extensions yesterday

Do I need to repost this issue on the Server Extensions Group or can you advise

Thanks again and sorry about the confusion

 

[Steve Easton]

I would head over to the server extensions group.


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[Stefan B Rusynko]

Shared borders do not rely on the FP SE
- they are design time only tools, with the html content inside of the <BODY> tags hard code to the pages using them on file save
(of the shared border page or page using them)


The only time the SE would interfere w/ a page and cause the doubling of content you have is if your Host server does not have the
current updated FP SE patches required as a result of the problems described at below KB articles
For Unix server problems on the FP2002 SE see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q299360
The latest FP SE for Unix that fix the problems
(FPSE 2000 1.4 patch and an FPSE 2002 SR 1.1 patch)
are at http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport

For NT server problems on the FP2002 SE see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q298827
For FrontPage Server Extension 2002 Update - see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q317296
and security patch
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-053.asp


PS
It almost appears as if the html in the pages has been edited outside of FP by you, or you are generating the visible html code thru
an attempt at ASP to manipulate the code

Your site is using 3 shared borders - none of which are showing up on the home page at
http://www.melco-service.com/default.htm which has:
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlb, default">
The supposed content of them is at
http://www.melco-service.com/_borders/top.htm
which starts w/ the code:
<p align="center"><!--webbot bot="Navigation" s-type="banner" s-rendering="graphics"
s-orientation b-include-home b-include-up U-Page S-Target startspan --><!--webbot bot="Navigation" i-checksum="0" endspan --></p>
<p align="center"><!--webbot bot="Navigation" s-type="top" s-orientation="horizontal"
s-rendering="graphics" b-include-home="TRUE" b-include-up="TRUE" U-Page S-Target startspan --><!--webbot bot="Navigation"
i-checksum="0" endspan --></p>
<!--msthemeseparator--><p align="center"><img src="../_themes/profile/aprorule.gif" width="600" height="10"></p>

But your home page does not have of that code to reflect the code in your top.htm page and starts out as:
!--msnavigation--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><p><font size="4">Welcome to Melco
Service.&nbsp;</font> </p>
<p><img alt="Melco Embroidery Systems Service Homepage (Melco-Service)" src="_borders/images/Samples.jpg" width="288" height="216">
</p>

Above leads me to suspect it is more than the FP SE doubling problems
- did you in any way edit the pages outside of FP




| Steve,
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| Sorry yes I do mean Extensions 2002, and yes I just downloaded and installed the extensions yesterday.
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| Do I need to repost this issue on the Server Extensions Group or can you advise?
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| Thanks again and sorry about the confusion!
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