FP 2003 Guest Book results problem.

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Scott

Its my second day with FP 2003 so please bear with me if this is a
nOOb question. Serving a small personal site with IIS 5.1 on XP Pro.
Fully patched.
I don't have any form of MS office. I dont think that matters.

I put a guest book form on my site today. When I add a comment to the
text box and click "Submit Comments" I get a page that says this...
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FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a
web server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.

This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly if you
publish this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server
Extensions installed.

Click the <Back> arrow to return to the previous page.
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Ok, when I right click my site in IIS then all tasks>check server
extensions,
it says no problem found.

I try removing server extensions (to re-install) but it appears that
nothing happens.
Im storing my pages in inetpub\wwwroot. Perhaps its where im saving my
pages?
Heres the code from the guest book.htm file.

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Guest Book</title>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="slate 1011, default">
</head>

<body>

<p><font face="Cornerstone" size="6">Guest Book....Ok now I'm really
opening
myself up to abuse!</font></p>
<p><font face="Cornerstone">I have no idea how this will
work!</font></p>
<hr>
<p>We'd like to know what you think about our web site. Please leave
your
comments in this public guest book so we can share your thoughts with
other
visitors.</p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit>
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" u-file="guestlog.htm" s-format="HTML/DL"
s-label-fields="TRUE" s-builtin-fields="Date Time REMOTE_USER"
s-form-fields startspan --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP"
VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" i-checksum="43374" endspan -->
<h2><strong>Add Your Comments</strong></h2>
<p><textarea name="Comments" rows="8" cols="52"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Comments">
<input type="reset" value="Clear Comments"><br>
<br>
<em>After you submit your comments, you will need to reload this page
with
your browser in order to see your additions to </em></p>
</form>
<!--webbot bot="Include" tag="BODY" u-include="guestlog.htm" --><hr>

</body>

</html>

Is this an easy one? Or is it more complex? Heh heh...I'm sure a $40
trip to the book store will help!

Thanks, SL
 
Did you create and test the site via http://localhost ?

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Well, no I didn't. I use FP to create pages, and save them in
\wwwroot. To test, I put my IP into the address bar of IE6. There's a
bit of a learning curve I guess. It sounds like I'm missing something
basic. I'll press a bit harder on F1.

Thanks, Scott
 
When you have a server installed, you should always use it by first always open the web as
http://localhost before working with your web content. Also be sure to always import any images or
other content into the web prior to using.

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Thanks for your reply!

Your first reply was so short I knew I had some learning to do. I now
know the difference between a disk based and server based site. After
a subsequent attempt I got the guest book, hit counter ect. working.
Now the guest book results don't show up anymore. They show in
guestlog.htm but not on the site page itself.

I tried deleting and re-creating the guest book. No help.

I've been opening and editing http://localhost/mysite and then
publishing to http://localhost after reading that that method allows
me to keep the comment data ect for editing and then clean up the html
for publishing.

Are you saying that I should open and edit on http://localhost or that
I should open //localhost first and then open /mysite for editing but
still publish to //localhost? whew!

I also notice a significant difference in my pages when viewed in
design view and preview. I expect this is related to my inexperience
with the program and how to lay things out.

Thanks, Scott
 
Well, in regards to the guest book problem of not showing guest
comments on the site. First I deleted and re-created the guest book
page and re-publish. No help. I then decided to try unchecking all of
the boxes in "optimize html" and re-publishing the guest book.htm and
guest log.htm. This seems to have taken care of the problem. That
feature must be removing a required component or link.

Scott
 
When you use that feature/function you remove all webbot code, which also means the unless you keep
a original unaltered version of the file(s), FP will not be able re-open the page as it was
originally designed.

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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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