Guestbook: How to?

[Prose]

I have always used a commercial guestbook on pages I have made but am really
tired of the ads so decided to try the Guestbook Feature in FP 2002. I made
the form and uploaded it but how do I get it to work? FWIW, I am using FP as
an html editor and not uploading to my host using FP extensions. I don't
know if that affects it or not?

I know I have missed a step or several steps.

When I put in some text on the actual guestbook after uploading it, this is
the message that was returned to me:

The requested URL /--WEBBOT-SELF-- was not found on this server.

Thanks in advance, y'all!

Mary

 

[Ronx]

The Guestbook must be published (using HTML - *not FTP) to a server running
FrontPage Extensions.

 

[Guest]

You may want to look at this free sample which works very well so far;

http://melvillehighschool.accaw.org/guestbook

 

[Prose]

The Melville book does look nice but when I viewed the source it said,
"KISGB is a robust, easy to use, and fully customizable PHP Guest Book!"

 

[Joe S.]

Don't know if this will help, but, I was having a similar problem with my
guestbook. After I solved it, I posted this note to the newsgroup.

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I was having a problem with my Guestbook. When I entered comments on the
Guestbook (guestbk.htm) and hit the "Submit" button, I got the following
error in the browser:
-- "Cannot open the page"
-- and, the URL in the broswer displayed
http://www.myweb.com/_derived/nortbots.htm

I finally found out how to fix it:
-- Open the guestbook file on both the HD and on the live web. In my case,
the file is guestbk.htm.
-- Go to HTML view and look for the following HTML:
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
-- I found this line of code on both the HD and the remote web -- removed it
and the guestbook works.

Don't ask me how it got there or what it means, but, there it is.

 

[Prose]

Ron,
My server does allow FP extensions. Could you give me a little info on how
to do this not using FTP?

Thanks!

Mary

 

[Steve Easton]

When you publish publish to http://yourweb.com

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Prose]

Steve,
Sorry to be so dense but could you be more explicit as far as publishing to
http://yourweb.com?

Thanks!
Mary

 

[Andrew Murray]

well. the guest book requires the fp extensions - that's how it works!

 

[Andrew Murray]

except to publish through frontpage with http:// the server needs the frontpage
extensions running!

I'm sure there are third party products that don't have ads, surely? or ones that
require at minimal a link to the author's site and that's it....not distracting
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