FP extensions question

[Murray]

I am working with an individual who has inherited a FP site - unknown FP
version, but definitely using FP form processing.

Unwittingly, she connected to the site with Dreamweaver's FTP, and uploaded
a file. You know the story. Here's some of her narrative -

"That's not exactly what's going on unless what you mean is because I FTP'd
a
DW-edited page in the beginning, things will never be the same. Now, they
restore the FP extensions and then FP works, but the site is immediately
inoperable (not because of DW, they said, but because restoring FP
extensions
always does that and they always have to restore the site with a backup file
after restoring FP extensions.)

Okay, so as soon as the site is restored from the backup file, the FP
extensions that they just reinstalled no longer work. It's only then that I
have used Dreamweaver and FTP'd pages to the server because the hosting
service
takes days to work on a ticket and I can't have that site down for days at a
time. We've had several hundred 404s in one day and we're getting ready to
launch our Feb 2006 conference which is a big deal with NYT best selling
authors speaking."

In addition to recommending that she change hosts, I am wondering how much
of the rest of this is hoohah. Does it sound right to you?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

It sounds like a host who doesn't know how to configure and maintain
accounts with the FP server extensions.
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|I am working with an individual who has inherited a FP site - unknown FP
| version, but definitely using FP form processing.
|
| Unwittingly, she connected to the site with Dreamweaver's FTP, and
uploaded
| a file. You know the story. Here's some of her narrative -
|
| "That's not exactly what's going on unless what you mean is because I
FTP'd
| a
| DW-edited page in the beginning, things will never be the same. Now, they
| restore the FP extensions and then FP works, but the site is immediately
| inoperable (not because of DW, they said, but because restoring FP
| extensions
| always does that and they always have to restore the site with a backup
file
| after restoring FP extensions.)
|
| Okay, so as soon as the site is restored from the backup file, the FP
| extensions that they just reinstalled no longer work. It's only then that
I
| have used Dreamweaver and FTP'd pages to the server because the hosting
| service
| takes days to work on a ticket and I can't have that site down for days at
a
| time. We've had several hundred 404s in one day and we're getting ready
to
| launch our Feb 2006 conference which is a big deal with NYT best selling
| authors speaking."
|
| In addition to recommending that she change hosts, I am wondering how much
| of the rest of this is hoohah. Does it sound right to you?
|
|
| --
| Murray
| ============
|
|

 

[Murray]

That's my take too, Tom. Thanks!