[cobalt-users] Re: FrontPage 2000 Issues

[Fred McKinnon <fmckinnon@xxxxxxxxx>]

lanny & gerald wrote:
>I believe your problem is how you are attempting to
>open the FrontPage enabled site. Almost all of my 
>clients use FrontPage with a RAQ4i without any 
>problems.

>1) Open FrontPage
>2) Choose "File", "Open Web"
>3) The "Look In" box is typically set to "Web
Folders" >(this isn't critical though). In the "Folder
Name" box >at the bottom of the window enter the
complete site 
>address. http://www.yourdomain.com
>4) You will be prompted for a username and password. 
>You set this up in the GUI when you enabled FrontPage

>extensions. The username is webmaster and the
password >is whatever you chose.

Thanks Lanny and Gerald -
OK - DNS is still not active - let me explain.  My
Cobalt is setup with an ISP (co-located), and they
setup the DNS and zones for me - I just tell them
which of my 8IP's I want it pointed to . .but, Network
Solutions DNS still hasn't updated.

Anyway - I tried what you suggested - "Open Web", and
I put the http://IPaddress in the folder box, and I
get this message:  "The folder "http://IPAddress is
not accessible.  The folder may be located on an
unavailable volume or may be protected with a
password.  For details, see
c:\windows\TEMP/wecerr.txt"

However, if I just go to "Open", and type
http://IPaddress in the filename box, I open to the
first virtual website I have pointing to that IP,
which incidentally, is NOT FP enabled?!?!?

Thinking this could be an issue related to DNS not
being active, I attempted to Open Web on a virutal
site that is active in DNS, and it IS FP enabled,
called christianrenewalssi.org

I go to Open Web: and in folder name, I type:
http://www.christianrenewalssi.org

I get the login box, where I type in the site
administrators ID and password, and it begins opening
the web, and I get these errors:

"Server Error - cannot change permissions on on file
/home/sites/site2/web/ministries.html"

and when I click on "OK", and this error starts
popping up on nearly every .html file, until it
finally gets to index.html, and when I click OK, the
site folder that had appeared goes away, and i'm left
with nothing.

Aside of wishing everyone in the world used
Dreamweaver, I realize there are too many FP users out
there, and I really need to get this going.


> > FrontPage does not use the standard FTP protocol
> to connect to your server but
> instead actually connects over port 80. That is why
> you are unable to connect
> using the FTP settings. You did mention that the
> domain isn't active in DNS yet.
> You can connect to the main site via the IP address
> http://216.000.0.0 or
> whatever you IP is. You won't be able to get to your
> virtual sites via FrontPage
> until the DNS settings are completed.



And Gerald wrote:

> On windows put the ip.ad.dr.ess
> http://www.whatever.com in the /windows/hosts
> file.
> (follow the examples in the hosts file) a gotcha
> though, is to make sure there
> is no
> whitespace before the ip.ad.dr.ess. (starts at the
> beginning of the line)
> I guess if it's FrontPage, I don't need to tell you
> about Linux /etc/hosts file.
> Gerald

Sorry, Gerald, but to be 100% honest and transparent,
this newbie has no clue what you are talking about! 
By "on windows" - do you mean the Windows OS?  I use a
Macintosh, and did put "Virtual PC" on the Mac so that
I could run Windows 98 and FrontPage 2000, but as far
as editing a "hosts file".  .never heard of it.  I'm
also not aware of the Linux /etc/hosts file, but I'm
learning this stuff rather quickly, these days!

Thanks for your help!
Fred F. McKinnon


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