FTP breaks after publishing

[Mike]

I have been publishing my web site using FrontPage 2003 SP1 (And the 2000
version before that.) for a year now. I have an IP camera doing an FTP
upload of screen shots every 5 seconds. It has been working fine until about
a month ago. Now when I publish my site (I only use the publishing wizard.)
it is damaging the anonymous/webroot folder on the server (MS IIS) from what
I have been told and the FTP from the camera fails. I get the message "FTP
rejects unknown user anonymous" in the camera log. I have to call Roadrunner
and have them recreate the anonymous/webroot folder or if it is there to
delete it and then recreate it.



Until this folder is "fixed" the camera FTP will fail and I also cannot
login to the server using Internet Explorer FTP. Internet Explorer keeps
coming back saying the username and/or the password is bad. When the folder
is "fixed" I can then login OK. This is done only as a test.



Any ideas of what is causing this and how to prevent it. I don't like having
to call Roadrunner and get them to fix this problem after every publish. The
camera uploads contiue for some time before stopping after I publish.



P.S. Should I have this "anonymous/webroot" folder on my local hard drive? I
have published on separate occasions the FTP problem still happened.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

FTP to the root of an extended web will almost always break the extensions.
The best way to do this, I think, is to have the webcam FTP to a
subweb/subsite.


|I have been publishing my web site using FrontPage 2003 SP1 (And the 2000
| version before that.) for a year now. I have an IP camera doing an FTP
| upload of screen shots every 5 seconds. It has been working fine until
about
| a month ago. Now when I publish my site (I only use the publishing
wizard.)
| it is damaging the anonymous/webroot folder on the server (MS IIS) from
what
| I have been told and the FTP from the camera fails. I get the message "FTP
| rejects unknown user anonymous" in the camera log. I have to call
Roadrunner
| and have them recreate the anonymous/webroot folder or if it is there to
| delete it and then recreate it.
|
|
|
| Until this folder is "fixed" the camera FTP will fail and I also cannot
| login to the server using Internet Explorer FTP. Internet Explorer keeps
| coming back saying the username and/or the password is bad. When the
folder
| is "fixed" I can then login OK. This is done only as a test.
|
|
|
| Any ideas of what is causing this and how to prevent it. I don't like
having
| to call Roadrunner and get them to fix this problem after every publish.
The
| camera uploads contiue for some time before stopping after I publish.
|
|
|
| P.S. Should I have this "anonymous/webroot" folder on my local hard drive?
I
| have published on separate occasions the FTP problem still happened.
|
|
|
|

 

[Funkadyleik Spynwhanker]

You need to separate the two transfer protocols. They don't play nice with
one another.

(Usually FTP breaks FrontPage, but hey...)

Do this;

Make an FTP folder for your cam to upload with suitable permissions.

Make the site in a DIFFERENT FOLDER with FrontPage.

On the server have your host make a VIRTUAL FOLDER in the FRONTPAGE web go
to the FTP folder. SO... www.blahblah.net/ftpvirtualfolder mapped to
c:/inetpub/ftwproot/camfolder.

That way you can reference images from HTML with img
src="/ftpvirtualfolder/camfile.jpg" from your web, and hitting the virtual
folder get the image files there.

I have the feeling Crapcast wont do this for you... so if you can find a
place to upload images via FTP on a different server, do that (and then just
link in the HTML).

Bottom line, is FrontPage and FTP are arch enemies that can only be tricked
into working together. If you use no trickery, one ends up dead.

 

[Mike]

I have the camera FTP'ing to a subweb folder. I have e-mailed Roadrunner and
asked them to reinstall the extensions. It worked for a couple of months
without any problems. I published changes many times before this problem
started.

If the camera FTP uploads stop again after the extensions are reinstalled,
then I will ask them to make a ftp virtual folder.

Thanks.