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AndrewS
Hello I am being plagued by the message "The server unexpectedly closed the
connection" in FrontPage 2002 whenever I try to upload to my site.
In the hopes of resolving the problem here is the background of how the
problem developed; my apologies to all if this seems like a long winded
tale...
In December 2003 I purchased a new modem and I was never very happy with it.
On January 04/04 when I was uploading some minor directory corrections and
my system suddenly went into a continuous reboot cycle that I couldn't break
out of. In desperation I used the Windows XP upgrade disk to break it.
Then half way through the set up my house suffered a several second power
failure and bang I was dead in the water and couldn't do anything. I was
unable to boot up to XP and even my original computers system recovery disks
would not help me. The next day I purchased the full version of Windows Xp
and installed it as second operating system on my Pc. I then backed up
everything I could to a Cd in the hopes of restoring after a reformat of the
primary hard disk. Unfortutanly those files pertaining to Outlook Express,
my address book, and the newsgroup where either wiped out by the reinstall
or where corrupt and unrecoverable. A little tip here to anyone reading
this sorry tale. ALWAYS ALWAYS back up important files such as these AS
WELL AS your data files. You never know when something like this can
happen.
At any rate a couple days later reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled
all the software INCLUDING my website. I then checked my site and
discovered when the original system crash it also took out parts of my site.
Fine so I decided to reload the entire site of 300+ megs over a dial up
connection. Realizing that it would take a few hours (okay I lied about a
day and half) I let it run. The only problem was I kept getting plagued by
"Parse Errors" and "The server unexpectedly closed the connection".
About 5 days ago Comcast was offering high speed internet in my area and for
obvious reasons I jumped at it and now have high speed internet. I
immediately set about reloading my site. The only problem is the errors
persisted. I would get half way into the upload and bang "The server
unexpectedly closed the connection" message pops up. I am sure it has
something to do with but the time it takes for the message to occur was
getting progressively less and less. Now it is to the point that 5 seconds
after the upload begins the message appears.
Can anyone offer any suggestions for what's going wrong...? I have
contacted the server and they are as mystified as I am. Their only
suggestion is for me to change my ftp settings to passive.
Thanks,
Andrew S
..
connection" in FrontPage 2002 whenever I try to upload to my site.
In the hopes of resolving the problem here is the background of how the
problem developed; my apologies to all if this seems like a long winded
tale...
In December 2003 I purchased a new modem and I was never very happy with it.
On January 04/04 when I was uploading some minor directory corrections and
my system suddenly went into a continuous reboot cycle that I couldn't break
out of. In desperation I used the Windows XP upgrade disk to break it.
Then half way through the set up my house suffered a several second power
failure and bang I was dead in the water and couldn't do anything. I was
unable to boot up to XP and even my original computers system recovery disks
would not help me. The next day I purchased the full version of Windows Xp
and installed it as second operating system on my Pc. I then backed up
everything I could to a Cd in the hopes of restoring after a reformat of the
primary hard disk. Unfortutanly those files pertaining to Outlook Express,
my address book, and the newsgroup where either wiped out by the reinstall
or where corrupt and unrecoverable. A little tip here to anyone reading
this sorry tale. ALWAYS ALWAYS back up important files such as these AS
WELL AS your data files. You never know when something like this can
happen.
At any rate a couple days later reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled
all the software INCLUDING my website. I then checked my site and
discovered when the original system crash it also took out parts of my site.
Fine so I decided to reload the entire site of 300+ megs over a dial up
connection. Realizing that it would take a few hours (okay I lied about a
day and half) I let it run. The only problem was I kept getting plagued by
"Parse Errors" and "The server unexpectedly closed the connection".
About 5 days ago Comcast was offering high speed internet in my area and for
obvious reasons I jumped at it and now have high speed internet. I
immediately set about reloading my site. The only problem is the errors
persisted. I would get half way into the upload and bang "The server
unexpectedly closed the connection" message pops up. I am sure it has
something to do with but the time it takes for the message to occur was
getting progressively less and less. Now it is to the point that 5 seconds
after the upload begins the message appears.
Can anyone offer any suggestions for what's going wrong...? I have
contacted the server and they are as mystified as I am. Their only
suggestion is for me to change my ftp settings to passive.
Thanks,
Andrew S
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