Yahoo Webhosting and Frontpage Forms

[Guest]

I created a website using Frontpage 2003. Everything works and looks great.
However, I decided to create a couple of form pages that update a flat
webpage because Yahoo only sends email forms to your alternate email
address... If I use the domain name to get to the website everything works
(ie company.com) if I use www.company.com to get to the form pages I get a
Frontpage Error contact your webmaster. I have enabled and disabled and
enabled FPSE multiple times and the Yahoo's at Yahoo say that this is a
Frontpage 2003 issue and they can't help me. To me it looks like an internal
mapping of the domain name issue since you have to POST to the company.com
name site yet everyone uses www.company.com to get to it. One of the
"Supervisors" told me that the shtml.exe file doesn't run on their servers.
I asked the wise guy why it works if I use company.com then. He said it
shouldn't. Period. ANY IDEAS???? HELP HELP HELP. I know the form works so
it should work no matter which way I get to it. I even had the Yahoo's try
it and proved to them it worked and shouldn't be a FP issue. But they
refused to believe that. They said the problem was contained in the magic of
the WEBBOT SELF.
Anyone got any ideas or anyone with forms working on Yahoo small business
webhosting????

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

This is a issue that only Yahoo can resolve since it is based on how they have configured their
servers to support the FP extensions.

You only option it appears is to switch to a real web hosting service that doesn't do anything but
web hosting or not use the FP form handler, but that means Yahoo must provide a alternative form
handler for you to use.

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[Guest]

I hit upon a workaround that the Yahoo's at Yahoo will probably cut off at
the knees someday. Hopefully by then they will have a real webhost.

Since all of my forms work when I use company.com and not www.company.com
and Yahoo support was beyond no help. I discovered that
Yahoo defaults www.company.com to point to index.html. So I created a blank
index.html page with a company logo on it and a redirect to
company.com/index.htm (no l) and I made index.htm my FP Home page. NOW all
of the forms work whether you go to www.company.com or company.com and all of
my link bars work and if you have a slow link to the website you get a flash
effect of the company logo.