does FP2003 have an error log?

[Beemer Biker]

I added a number of items to my page and seem to have messed one of them up.
When I publish I get an error about a bad parameter. The last time this
happened I had spaces in some of the jpg image names.

Anyway, I cannot spot the problem. I looked at \windows\logs and in the
event logs but cannot find what caused the error message. Is there an error
log for Fp2003 when publishing?


exact error message: "bad parameter passed to web server extensions. check
the information you entered and try again"

I am using ftp to publish as the directory is not the root. This had been
working fine up until I added a bunch of files. The only think I can think
of is to manually attempt to "ftp" each new page and see which one causes
the problem.

thanks for looking

 

[Ronx]

The problem is using FTP on a FrontPage extensions site. FTP will corrupt
the extensions - they will probably have to be repaired or even
re-installed.

Using FTP will never give an error regarding the extensions - FP extensions
and FTP are mutually exclusive (except that using FTP will corrupt the
extensions unless you are very lucky).
The log will be in the event log (or equivalent) on the server, with
possibly a copy in the temp folder (wecerr.txt or wecerr.log or similar) on
your PC.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Beemer Biker]

The problem is using FTP on a FrontPage extensions site. FTP will corrupt
the extensions - they will probably have to be repaired or even
re-installed.

I am porting several sites from a yahoo server (php and mysql and Fp2003 (no
extensions)) to GoDaddy and their aspx and frontpage extensions.
Eventually I hope to combine all sites into "one site" My root site
http://stateson.net is under construction but I published a C# dotnet app to
http://stateson.net/BoincInfo/ using VS2008 and front page extensions work
fine. I also have http://ResearchRiders.org at
http://stateson.net/ResearchRiders and used FP2003 to publish it. I just
recently installed Expression Web 2.0 but have not used it.

If you have any suggestions I would appreciate them. It would be nice to
use one tool for all development and would like to organize this mess.

Using FTP will never give an error regarding the extensions - FP
extensions and FTP are mutually exclusive (except that using FTP will
corrupt the extensions unless you are very lucky).
The log will be in the event log (or equivalent) on the server, with
possibly a copy in the temp folder (wecerr.txt or wecerr.log or similar)
on

ok, I did find an error message at \users\username\AppData\whatever...
======error message follows===
10/29/2009 09:08:22
Server error: A file with the name events/2009/July/movie/IMG_0870.jpg
already e
xists. It was last modified by JSTATESON2QUAD\jstateson on 29 Oct 2009
09:06:08
-0500.
====end of error message===

This mess seems strange for 2 reasons. (1) There is nothing wrong with
haveing the same filename, I just want to update the image.
(2) the time is wrong. I got 3 of those parameter error message just in the
last couple of hours but the 9am time occured much earlier

your PC.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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"Beemer Biker" <[email protected]> wrote in message

<SNIP>

thanks!

 

[Ronx]

GoDaddy's support for FrontPage extensions is almost non-existent. Since
you are using asp.NET then I suggest dropping the extensions altogether.

The FTP engine in Expression Web 3 is very good - much better than FrontPage
or Expression Web 2. I would use Expression Web for page design and
publishing, and Visual Studio for code behind. VS and EW work well
together.

--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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