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How do I interpret error codes from FrontPage Extensions?

Wrong answer was autoselected by the stupid bounty system. I'm using front page extensions to interact with SharePoint Services 3.0 as described here. In most samples I have seen the client simply looks for particular English strings in the result and uses that to determine if an error has occurred. However, I am writing an application...

IIS 6, Wildcard Application Mapping, and FrontPage

While I'd love to get rid of requiring FrontPage Extensions on a heavy traffic site I host, the client requires it to administrate the site. Having just implemented Wildcard Application Mapping in IIS 6 on this site in order to provide integrated Forms Authentication security between ASP and ASP.NET resources, this breaks FrontPage exten...

VS2008 - Front Page Server Extensions

Good day, I'm looking for a layman's explanation of the relationship betweeen FrontPage Server Extensions and a .NET web app. Background: A team of us are using VS2008 to develop a web app which is located on a network server. This is an internal project - we're all on the same domain. I created the site on the server and made sure eve...

Cheap WYSIWYG Editor for Static Websites (think Frontpage)

I am looking for an easy to use WYSIWYG athoring tool that lets me build a complete website that consists of multiple connected static html pages. Actually something like Frontpage would be exactly what I need. I can define menus, contact forms, design the layout and define how the sites are linked to each other. But frontpage seems to b...

Unable to open the Web site: http://.. Forbidden

Hello. Maybe somebody has already encountered with next problem: When I try to open Remove Web Site using Visual Studio 2008 TS (File -> Open -> Web Site -> Remote) located on Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise x64 (IIS 7.0) I'm getting next error: I have access to the server. I added user 'Everyone' with Full Permissions for that ...

FrontPage tags - Pain in da HTML

I have a webapplication, developed and ready to be deployed. The web part of it was designed using M$ FrontPage. None of the developers cared about proprietary weird tags that FrontPage inserts into HTML. I don't remember tags on top of my head, but I remember seeing tags such as <webbot> and etc. Now, my client doesn't want to see a bun...

Does SharePoint 2007 use FrontPage Extensions?

An automated security scan was performed on my WSS 3.0 site and it came up with some warnings based on the apparent presence of FrontPage Extensions. Namely it found files like /_vti_pvt/service.cnf, /_vti_pvt/services.cnf, and /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll by appending those locations to the site's main URL over the web. These are appar...

What are "_vti_cnf", "_vti_pvt", "_vti_script" and "_vti_txt" folders ???

This folder appear in my dotnet Web project. Why? Does are usefull? ...

How to Convert a Website Created in FrontPage to standard HTML

Does anyone know of an easy way to take the website created in MS Frontpage and convert it into working standard html without all of the goop that FP puts in there? I've got a site that was created in FP which renders fine in IE (of course) but for which the links don't work in any of the other browsers. I've been brought into this afte...

Error message "unable to open web site" with VS 2008 on Vista

I am trying to open a project in VS 2008 and my domain account it in the administrator group. I get this message: "Unable to open the Web site 'http://locahost'. To access Web sites on thie local IIS Web server, you must run Visual Studio under an Administrator account in order to have access to the IIS metabase. Alte...

How can I install Front Page server extensions in IIS 6

Sorry guys, Microsoft don't provide much in the line of documentation for installing front page server extensions. How is it done? ...

VS.Net 2008 Express Edition remote connect to iis 7 (FPSE not installed error)

i have a windows server 2008 setup on my vmware and my main OS is winxp. my problem is, on my winxp, im using vs.net 2008 and when i try to connect to the guest OS (IIS7), im getting "The Web server does not appear to have FrontPage Server Extensions installed." error. i tried installing FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 (http:/...

How do front page server extensions work?

I have a website that I inherited and I think it uses FrontPage. I'm assuming the server has FrontPage extensions installed on it. There is a table of contents page "toc.htm" and inside the default.htm page there is this <!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="toc.htm" TAG="BODY" startspan --> tag. Following the tag is the entire content...

FrontPage Access Denied when Synchronizing with SourceSafe

How can I override or correct the Access Denied error when trying to synchronize local and remote files in FrontPage? This has not always been a problem....it just started last week. I installed Microsoft Essentials III trial to evaluate as an alternative to FrontPage. I copied a few files into Essentials to test it, but they were cop...

Putting content to frontpage in Joomla 1.5

What should be changed in Joomla's database to put content to the frontpage? I've got a great deal of articles and making it by hand would take a lot of time. So I'm looking for an automatic way. ...

What to replace FrontPage with?

I use FrontPage for two different tasks; authoring html help and authoring a couple of websites. The websites don't require a lot of stuff -- they are there to disseminate a bit of information to a couple of small audiences. FrontPage has been quick and easy for these tasks. WYSIWYG is good for these jobs and I like being able to click ...

How can I keep one specific article always on top on the front page?

On my joomla website, I'd like to have a "about our company" article always be the first article on the front page. I want the other articles to shift down in position as new articles are added, but to keep the "about our company" one constantly on top. I tried setting the order of that article on the front page manager to -1, but it sti...

Writing your own FrontPage RPC server (like SharePoint)

Does anybody have experience in programming a protocol handler (server) that talks FrontPage RPC? I want to make a server that behaves itself as if it was SharePoint. What I want is to open a Word document from this Web Server, edit it in MS Word and write the changes to the Web server. So in the same way you can edit Word documents fr...

Is there a VALID URL for Frontpage 2002 Server Extensions for Windows XP...

on Microsoft's site (or anywhere else). All the links that I have seen are either BROKEN or refer to UPDATES/PATCHES for the software. Yes, I know that Windows XP comes with Frontpage Server Extensions 2000, but I'd like to upgrade to 2002. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...

How can I figure out what this frontpage extension code is supposed to do?

I was asked to assist with troubleshooting a problem. Functionality on a site "stopped working" and I was asked to figure out what is wrong. The following is the error: FrontPage Error. User: please report details to this site's webmaster. Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more details. On th...