Forms duplicating on page

[Nathan Martin]

Our church's website has an area where people can submit questions to the
pastor and his responses are posted publicly. At the end of each page we use
the include webbot to insert the form ("askform.htm"). Somehow the form gets
duplicated over and over again and I'm not sure how. Here's a sample:

http://www.christianchallenge.org/ask/omnipotentbeing.html

If you were to look at the html in FP you would see the form is inserted via
a webbot then somehow the contents of the form get inserted multiple times.
Sometimes I'll see the following code are various points throughout the
page:

<!--webbot BOT="Include" endspan i-checksum="21233" -->

I don't see code like that (enspand checksum for an include) on a file that
works correctly. This only happens on forms, it doesn't happen on other
includes, which I use a lot (headers, footers, menues, etc).

I can go through and manually delete all the extra forms and the webbot,
then reinsert the webbot and it will look fine for awhile. Then at some
unknown time the forms will start duplicating themselves again. I haven't
found any specific time frame or common denominator to be able to tell what
is causing the problem. I don't know if it's a problem with FrontPage or the
Server Extensions.

I'm running the site on a Red Hat Linux box with FP Server Extensions
installed. . I've scoured user forums and googled the net and Usenet and
haven't come up with any answers. Hopefully you have seen something similar
and can help out.

Sincerely,
Nathan

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

There are some bugs in FP & in the FP2002 SE related to shared borders & include pages
so make sure you (and your host) see & apply all appropriate patches from:

For info in Service Pack 1 & 2 for FP2002 / MSO XP - see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q325671

For the Host/Server running the FP2002 SE

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




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[Nathan Martin]

Thank you so much for this information! I will scour it to see if I can get
the correct info to my server guy. Thanks again!

Nathan

 

[Nathan Martin]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for the information you provided. However, I've come to a dead
end. I've read the articles you linked and confirmed that I have the most
recent version of FP 2002 Server Extensions installed.

I was able to find out what appears to be causing the problem. When I run
the "Recalculate Hyperlinks" command the "includes" appear to be duplicated
as I described in my first message. I went through the hundreds of files and
eliminated all of the duplicated info, verified that the include webbot was
correct and saved each file. After running the "Recalculate Hyperlinks"
command, every page had the contents of the include file inserted after the
include code. For example it looked like this:

<!--webbot bot="Include" u-include="askform.htm" tag="BODY" -->
<form method="POST" target="_top" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0">
............ deleted contents of the included file ........... </p>

<!--webbot bot="Include" i-checksum="56293" endspan -->

Note that the last line (checksum) was not in the original file but was
added by the recalculation of the hyperlinks. If I run the recalculate
command again, I get ANOTHER copy of the included file tacked on.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to turn now?

Thanks in advance,
Nathan

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Then your host has not applied the patches to the FP SE on the server referenced
-that is why the Recal is doubling includes each time
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