File Access Problem

[CJ]

My client has a site hosted by 1&1 Internet in the UK on their Windows
platform. They don't allow simultaneous access by Frontpage and FTP, so they
supply a control panel where you can disable the Frontpage extensions in
order to use FTP.

OK, this is fine, but my client regularly uploads photos to the site which
are in turn referenced by a FP database, so most of the time, we need FTP
access. This in turn means that the FP components such as the feedback form
do not work!

What I wondered is whether there is a separate client I can obtain which
uses http rather than FTP to upload files (a bit like FP itself does). Of
course he could buy FP but it seems overkill to solve a simple problem.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You client would have to have FP to work on any FP run-time components.

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[Jim Buyens]

Have you considered providng a form that uses the File
Upload component? That way, the client could upload the
pictures using only a browser.

Just be sure to password-protect the upload function
somehow, or some mischief maker will replace the company
president's photo with a clown face, a gorilla, or
something even less appropriate.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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[CJ]

Have you considered providng a form that uses the File

Upload component? That way, the client could upload the
pictures using only a browser.

I did try this, but every time the database fetched a photo it asked the
user for a username and password - presumably because the photo resided in
the protected folder.

CJ

 

[Jim Buyens]

Right. You should protect the Web page that performs the upload, not
the folder that receives the picture files.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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[CJ]

Right. You should protect the Web page that performs the upload, not

the folder that receives the picture files.

Thanks. I don't actually think that's possible with our host. There is a
control panel that lets you password protect folders, but that's about it as
far as I can tell.

CJ