problems publishing

Andrew Murray · May 2, 2004

I'm using FP 2002, publishing to a website to an extensions-enabled Windows
server. (Win2000 IIS I presume).

I'm trying to publish two ASP pages generated by Frontpage - the database results
and a page within an html form using the form handler to send the results to a
mdb database.

I believe there is a method to check if the extension are installed (correctly or
otherwise....?) or at least recognised - by just keying in a particular url to
one of the hidden folders like vti_cnf or whatever - what is the correct
url/folder for this?

I cannot get these two pages to publish, as I get these errors:

1) "The Server unexpectedly closed the connection"; and

2) The attempted transfer of the files triggers a medium alert from my
firewall (Norton 2003). It gives an IP address which says is a computer on my
local network - the only computer/s I'm connected to is the internet, I've no
other computers connected to anything.

Below is the Symantec security info on the alert, I can't make head or tail of
the explanation....perhaps someone can explain it in layman's terms.....?

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/nis_ids/sigs/HTTP_MS_SQL_XML_CrossSiteScripting.html

Regarding the other error, I've found nothing in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
regarding "server unexpectedly closed connection." I've tried in the MSKB
categories of "Frontpage 2002", "Frontpage" and "Frontpage 2002 Server Ext" but
to no avail. tried it using "exact phrase" and "any word" and options. The
closed I came was articles regarding "time out connections" but I don't believe
this is the same thing as I can publish html files and other asp files (asp files
not created in frontpage - third party applications) just fine, except for the
two I need to be published.

This security response goes on about vulnerabilities in MS SQL - but I'm not
using that as such....yes I have a SQL query in the AsP code that queries a table
in an Access database but MS SQL is a different database system altogether isn't
it?

I've sent an email to the ISP support as well, but will wait for any anwer
forthcoming from this NG.

Has anyone has this trouble or exact problem and what was the resolution to it?

Thanks in advance.

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Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP] · May 2, 2004

Andrew:

Here's how to determine what version of the Server Extensions are enabled
for your site:

Bring up your home page in your browser, and type this after the URL:
"_vti_inf.html" (without the quotes) and Press Enter. It should bring up a
page titled "FrontPage Configuration Information". Do a View | Source on the
page. Midway down the page, you should see: FPVersion="4.0.2.4324" - the "4"
indicates the FrontPage 2000 server extensions are enabled. A "3" means
FrontPage 98, a "5" means FrontPage 2002.

Andrew Murray · May 3, 2004

Kathleen,
thanks for that info

for my three sites these are the Extension info:
www.aym.perth.anglican.org



www.applecross.perth.anglican.org



Seems frontpage extensions are all present and correct on these three....

Anyone else able to explain the publishing problem? i.e. two asp pages with code
generated by Frontpage 2002 trying to publish via http and getting a dropped
connection from the server and firewall alert?

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Tom Pepper Willett · May 3, 2004

Has IIS Lockdown or URL scan been recently installed on those servers?
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=====================================================
Tom Pepper Willett [Microsoft MVP - FrontPage]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
Microsoft FrontPage:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/

=====================================================
| Kathleen,
| thanks for that info
|
| for my three sites these are the Extension info:
| www.aym.perth.anglican.org
|
| 
|
| www.applecross.perth.anglican.org
|
| 
|
|
| Seems frontpage extensions are all present and correct on these three....
|
| Anyone else able to explain the publishing problem? i.e. two asp pages
with code
| generated by Frontpage 2002 trying to publish via http and getting a
dropped
| connection from the server and firewall alert?
|
|
| --
| Andrew Murray
| Remove NOSPAM or SPAM BUSTER to reply
| to reply
|
| Outgoing message has been scanned with Norton Antivirus..
|
|
| _________________
|
| | > Andrew:
| >
| > Here's how to determine what version of the Server Extensions are
enabled
| > for your site:
| >
| > Bring up your home page in your browser, and type this after the URL:
| > "_vti_inf.html" (without the quotes) and Press Enter. It should bring up
a
| > page titled "FrontPage Configuration Information". Do a View | Source on
the
| > page. Midway down the page, you should see: FPVersion="4.0.2.4324" - the
"4"
| > indicates the FrontPage 2000 server extensions are enabled. A "3" means
| > FrontPage 98, a "5" means FrontPage 2002.
| >
| >
| >
| > --
| > ~ Kathleen Anderson
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > Spider Web Woman Designs
| > http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
| >
| >
| > > I'm using FP 2002, publishing to a website to an extensions-enabled
| > > Windows server. (Win2000 IIS I presume).
| > >
| > > I'm trying to publish two ASP pages generated by Frontpage - the
| > > database results and a page within an html form using the form
| > > handler to send the results to a mdb database.
| > >
| > > I believe there is a method to check if the extension are installed
| > > (correctly or otherwise....?) or at least recognised - by just
| > > keying in a particular url to one of the hidden folders like vti_cnf
| > > or whatever - what is the correct url/folder for this?
| > >
| > > I cannot get these two pages to publish, as I get these errors:
| > >
| > > 1) "The Server unexpectedly closed the connection"; and
| > >
| > > 2) The attempted transfer of the files triggers a medium alert
| > > from my firewall (Norton 2003). It gives an IP address which says is
| > > a computer on my local network - the only computer/s I'm connected to
| > > is the internet, I've no other computers connected to anything.
| > >
| > > Below is the Symantec security info on the alert, I can't make head
| > > or tail of the explanation....perhaps someone can explain it in
| > > layman's terms.....?
| > >
| > >
| >
|
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/nis_ids/sigs/HTTP_MS_SQL_XML_CrossSiteScripting.html
| > >
| > > Regarding the other error, I've found nothing in the Microsoft
| > > Knowledge Base regarding "server unexpectedly closed connection."
| > > I've tried in the MSKB categories of "Frontpage 2002", "Frontpage"
| > > and "Frontpage 2002 Server Ext" but to no avail. tried it using
| > > "exact phrase" and "any word" and options. The closed I came was
| > > articles regarding "time out connections" but I don't believe this is
| > > the same thing as I can publish html files and other asp files (asp
| > > files not created in frontpage - third party applications) just fine,
| > > except for the two I need to be published.
| > >
| > > This security response goes on about vulnerabilities in MS SQL - but
| > > I'm not using that as such....yes I have a SQL query in the AsP code
| > > that queries a table in an Access database but MS SQL is a different
| > > database system altogether isn't it?
| > >
| > > I've sent an email to the ISP support as well, but will wait for any
| > > anwer forthcoming from this NG.
| > >
| > > Has anyone has this trouble or exact problem and what was the
| > > resolution to it?
| > >
| > > Thanks in advance.
| >
|
|

Andrew Murray · May 3, 2004

No I don't believe so....what are they ??

I did a google search ....returned 34,000 hits.....maybe I should just wait for a
simple explanation from this NG...

I'm a novice here when it comes to server administration, all I'm doing is
publishing to an ISP's server using Windows NT/2K, IIS and ASP & Frontpage 2002
enabled.

If it is a server security issue, shouldn't (or wouldn't) such a thing affect
everything, not just two files?

I'm still waiting on an answer from the ISP's tech support/helpdesk....hopefully
that will shed light on the problem. I'm not aware there are any restrictions on
the server extensions as far as functionality is concerned and up til now they
seem to do everything i.e. send email, send data to the database, and retrieve
data from a database although I have this working on a server without extensions,
but with ASP and running IIS/Win 2K.

Has IIS Lockdown or URL scan been recently installed on those servers?

--
=====================================================
Tom Pepper Willett [Microsoft MVP - FrontPage]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
Microsoft FrontPage:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
=====================================================
| Kathleen,
| thanks for that info
|
| for my three sites these are the Extension info:
| www.aym.perth.anglican.org
|
| 
|
| www.applecross.perth.anglican.org
|
| 
|
|
| Seems frontpage extensions are all present and correct on these three....
|
| Anyone else able to explain the publishing problem? i.e. two asp pages
with code
| generated by Frontpage 2002 trying to publish via http and getting a
dropped
| connection from the server and firewall alert?
|
|
| --
| Andrew Murray
| Remove NOSPAM or SPAM BUSTER to reply
| to reply
|
| Outgoing message has been scanned with Norton Antivirus..
|
|
| _________________
|
| | > Andrew:
| >
| > Here's how to determine what version of the Server Extensions are
enabled
| > for your site:
| >
| > Bring up your home page in your browser, and type this after the URL:
| > "_vti_inf.html" (without the quotes) and Press Enter. It should bring up
a
| > page titled "FrontPage Configuration Information". Do a View | Source on
the
| > page. Midway down the page, you should see: FPVersion="4.0.2.4324" - the
"4"
| > indicates the FrontPage 2000 server extensions are enabled. A "3" means
| > FrontPage 98, a "5" means FrontPage 2002.
| >
| >
| >
| > --
| > ~ Kathleen Anderson
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > Spider Web Woman Designs
| > http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
| >
| >
| > > I'm using FP 2002, publishing to a website to an extensions-enabled
| > > Windows server. (Win2000 IIS I presume).
| > >
| > > I'm trying to publish two ASP pages generated by Frontpage - the
| > > database results and a page within an html form using the form
| > > handler to send the results to a mdb database.
| > >
| > > I believe there is a method to check if the extension are installed
| > > (correctly or otherwise....?) or at least recognised - by just
| > > keying in a particular url to one of the hidden folders like vti_cnf
| > > or whatever - what is the correct url/folder for this?
| > >
| > > I cannot get these two pages to publish, as I get these errors:
| > >
| > > 1) "The Server unexpectedly closed the connection"; and
| > >
| > > 2) The attempted transfer of the files triggers a medium alert
| > > from my firewall (Norton 2003). It gives an IP address which says is
| > > a computer on my local network - the only computer/s I'm connected to
| > > is the internet, I've no other computers connected to anything.
| > >
| > > Below is the Symantec security info on the alert, I can't make head
| > > or tail of the explanation....perhaps someone can explain it in
| > > layman's terms.....?
| > >
| > >
| >
|
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/nis_ids/sigs/HTTP_MS_SQL_XML_CrossSiteScripting.html
| > >
| > > Regarding the other error, I've found nothing in the Microsoft
| > > Knowledge Base regarding "server unexpectedly closed connection."
| > > I've tried in the MSKB categories of "Frontpage 2002", "Frontpage"
| > > and "Frontpage 2002 Server Ext" but to no avail. tried it using
| > > "exact phrase" and "any word" and options. The closed I came was
| > > articles regarding "time out connections" but I don't believe this is
| > > the same thing as I can publish html files and other asp files (asp
| > > files not created in frontpage - third party applications) just fine,
| > > except for the two I need to be published.
| > >
| > > This security response goes on about vulnerabilities in MS SQL - but
| > > I'm not using that as such....yes I have a SQL query in the AsP code
| > > that queries a table in an Access database but MS SQL is a different
| > > database system altogether isn't it?
| > >
| > > I've sent an email to the ISP support as well, but will wait for any
| > > anwer forthcoming from this NG.
| > >
| > > Has anyone has this trouble or exact problem and what was the
| > > resolution to it?
| > >
| > > Thanks in advance.
| >
|
|

Stefan B Rusynko · May 3, 2004

In NIS you need to either disable the Personal Firewall, or set it up to allow FP
Personal Firewall Configure Program Control
- try the Program Scan or manually add FP

--

| No I don't believe so....what are they ??
|
| I did a google search ....returned 34,000 hits.....maybe I should just wait for a
| simple explanation from this NG...
|
| I'm a novice here when it comes to server administration, all I'm doing is
| publishing to an ISP's server using Windows NT/2K, IIS and ASP & Frontpage 2002
| enabled.
|
| If it is a server security issue, shouldn't (or wouldn't) such a thing affect
| everything, not just two files?
|
| I'm still waiting on an answer from the ISP's tech support/helpdesk....hopefully
| that will shed light on the problem. I'm not aware there are any restrictions on
| the server extensions as far as functionality is concerned and up til now they
| seem to do everything i.e. send email, send data to the database, and retrieve
| data from a database although I have this working on a server without extensions,
| but with ASP and running IIS/Win 2K.
|
|
|
| | >
| Has IIS Lockdown or URL scan been recently installed on those servers?
| > --
| > =====================================================
| > Tom Pepper Willett [Microsoft MVP - FrontPage]
| > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > -------------------
| > Microsoft FrontPage:
| > http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
| > http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| > To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| > http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| > =====================================================
| > | > | Kathleen,
| > | thanks for that info
| > |
| > | for my three sites these are the Extension info:
| > | www.aym.perth.anglican.org
| > |
| > | 
| > |
| > | www.applecross.perth.anglican.org
| > |
| > | 
| > |
| > |
| > | Seems frontpage extensions are all present and correct on these three....
| > |
| > | Anyone else able to explain the publishing problem? i.e. two asp pages
| > with code
| > | generated by Frontpage 2002 trying to publish via http and getting a
| > dropped
| > | connection from the server and firewall alert?
| > |
| > |
| > | --
| > | Andrew Murray
| > | Remove NOSPAM or SPAM BUSTER to reply
| > | to reply
| > |
| > | Outgoing message has been scanned with Norton Antivirus..
| > |
| > |
| > | _________________
| > |
| > | | > | > Andrew:
| > | >
| > | > Here's how to determine what version of the Server Extensions are
| > enabled
| > | > for your site:
| > | >
| > | > Bring up your home page in your browser, and type this after the URL:
| > | > "_vti_inf.html" (without the quotes) and Press Enter. It should bring up
| > a
| > | > page titled "FrontPage Configuration Information". Do a View | Source on
| > the
| > | > page. Midway down the page, you should see: FPVersion="4.0.2.4324" - the
| > "4"
| > | > indicates the FrontPage 2000 server extensions are enabled. A "3" means
| > | > FrontPage 98, a "5" means FrontPage 2002.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > ~ Kathleen Anderson
| > | > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > | > Spider Web Woman Designs
| > | > http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > > I'm using FP 2002, publishing to a website to an extensions-enabled
| > | > > Windows server. (Win2000 IIS I presume).
| > | > >
| > | > > I'm trying to publish two ASP pages generated by Frontpage - the
| > | > > database results and a page within an html form using the form
| > | > > handler to send the results to a mdb database.
| > | > >
| > | > > I believe there is a method to check if the extension are installed
| > | > > (correctly or otherwise....?) or at least recognised - by just
| > | > > keying in a particular url to one of the hidden folders like vti_cnf
| > | > > or whatever - what is the correct url/folder for this?
| > | > >
| > | > > I cannot get these two pages to publish, as I get these errors:
| > | > >
| > | > > 1) "The Server unexpectedly closed the connection"; and
| > | > >
| > | > > 2) The attempted transfer of the files triggers a medium alert
| > | > > from my firewall (Norton 2003). It gives an IP address which says is
| > | > > a computer on my local network - the only computer/s I'm connected to
| > | > > is the internet, I've no other computers connected to anything.
| > | > >
| > | > > Below is the Symantec security info on the alert, I can't make head
| > | > > or tail of the explanation....perhaps someone can explain it in
| > | > > layman's terms.....?
| > | > >
| > | > >
| > | >
| > |
| >
| http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/nis_ids/sigs/HTTP_MS_SQL_XML_CrossSiteScripting.html
| > | > >
| > | > > Regarding the other error, I've found nothing in the Microsoft
| > | > > Knowledge Base regarding "server unexpectedly closed connection."
| > | > > I've tried in the MSKB categories of "Frontpage 2002", "Frontpage"
| > | > > and "Frontpage 2002 Server Ext" but to no avail. tried it using
| > | > > "exact phrase" and "any word" and options. The closed I came was
| > | > > articles regarding "time out connections" but I don't believe this is
| > | > > the same thing as I can publish html files and other asp files (asp
| > | > > files not created in frontpage - third party applications) just fine,
| > | > > except for the two I need to be published.
| > | > >
| > | > > This security response goes on about vulnerabilities in MS SQL - but
| > | > > I'm not using that as such....yes I have a SQL query in the AsP code
| > | > > that queries a table in an Access database but MS SQL is a different
| > | > > database system altogether isn't it?
| > | > >
| > | > > I've sent an email to the ISP support as well, but will wait for any
| > | > > anwer forthcoming from this NG.
| > | > >
| > | > > Has anyone has this trouble or exact problem and what was the
| > | > > resolution to it?
| > | > >
| > | > > Thanks in advance.
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|

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