FP2000 publishing problem

[Karen]

I have two web sites that I created and manage in FP2000. One is a family
site; one for my church. Both are on Comcast web space. Wierd thing is
that the family site I publish in Frontpage with no problems, but the church
site will not allow me to publish in FP. It keeps asking (over and over)
for the password. I know the pw is correct because I can log in to the site
using FTP and work on it from there, but I want to be able to publish in FP
instead of FTP. Anyone know why FP would act this way or how I can delete
the pw files or some other way to get FP to publish this site?

TIA, Karen

 

[David Berry]

You need to contact your ISP and have them fix the permissions on the site.

 

[Karen]

David, I did that already and got nowhere. They said that since my pw
worked when FTPing or logging in directly from Comcast that it was a
frontpage problem and not on their end. I told them I was getting authoring
error messages, but it just did no good. I got no where with them.
Thanks for the advice though. I appreciate your trying to help.
Karen

 

[somebody]

I have two web sites that I created and manage in FP2000. One is a family
site; one for my church. Both are on Comcast web space. Wierd thing is
that the family site I publish in Frontpage with no problems, but the church
site will not allow me to publish in FP. It keeps asking (over and over)
for the password. I know the pw is correct because I can log in to the site
using FTP and work on it from there, but I want to be able to publish in FP
instead of FTP. Anyone know why FP would act this way or how I can delete
the pw files or some other way to get FP to publish this site?

Can you connect live to the site using FP? I have a site with a
freebee provider that keeps asking for the password when trying to
publish with FP. Yet I can connect to it live. A workaround for that
site is to connect live with FP, then close the site (but not FP),
open the web on the local machine and publish to the server. Don't
ask why, but it works

I have another provider where the particulars are different when publishing
with FP or uploading with FTP. I don't know the details off-hand, but
IIRC the directory (and the password ?) is different.

FTPing can damage the FP site. You may want to ask them to recreate
the webspace with the extensions. .

Roger

 

[Karen]

Roger,
I can open the site live. If I make changes "live" it will not let me save
them. Get a message saying that I am using an incorrect method. ?? anyway,
I will try what you suggested with the live site and see if I have any luck.
Right now I have to change the site in Frontpage, publish to my hard drive,
then FTP the changes to the web site. Strange and not the way I want to do
it, but it IS working. Maybe your way will work as well. Thanks for the
advice!
Karen

 

[Vocátional© & Technicál© Educátion®]

You may want to fool FP and clear the cache of your user name and password
which has to happen very often on www.tripod.com - Why didn't I think of
that...?

You can test by adding the slash before the last letter in your user name
and then before the last letter in your password - which should clear the
cache - then type in the correct info.

Best regards, Jeff @ (e-mail address removed)
"Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist."

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Does Comcast offer the FP extensions on the account, if not, then you can
not open and edit your pages directly on the server, and when publishing you
must enter a FTP location, not a http location in FP.

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[Karen]

Comcast does offer FP extensions which I have checked and they say "active".
It works on my other account just fine, just not this one. It acts like it
wants to publish, then just gets stuck asking for pw over and over....
Karen

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have the extensions removed and then re-applied and/or have Comcast run a
check on them and check permissions.

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[Karen]

Ok. I can remove FP extensions as one of my choices and then re-activate
them. But before I try that, what will that do to the web site that is
presently there?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Unless you have create subweb, nothing. If you have subwebs, you will need
to re-create them.

However see if you can get Comcast to run a check and let FP tighten
security first, which may solve the problem.

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[Karen]

I am not sure what you mean by "let FP tighten security".

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

That is a option that the host will get when running the check on the
extensions.

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[Karen]

Oh I see. Thanks. I will contact them and see if I can get somewhere this
time.