RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] FRONTPAGE EXTENSIONS NOT WORKING

["Simon Watts" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> <snip>
>
> FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
> You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that
> requires a web
> server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.
>
> This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly
> if you publish
> this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server
> Extensions installed.
>
> Click the <Back> arrow to return to the previous page.
>
> </snip>
>
>
>
> ls -al /home/sites/www.blah.com/web/_derived
> -rw-r--r--   1 ypsesame site55       2045 May 18 18:02 nortbots.htm
>
> ls -al /home/sites/www.blah.com/web
> drwxr-sr-x   2 ypsesame site55       7168 May 26 12:19 _derived
>
> [file perms for the htm file its trying to use and the
> directory's file
> perms]


You would appear to have a file/folders permission problem. All FP
files and folders should be owned by "Nobody" or the extensions cannot
run because FP uploads all files as 644.

Suggest (unless anybody else knows this won't work);
chown -R nobody web
whilst as root and in the affected users root folder.

This should not be done if your user has any manually ftp'd cgi/pl
files uploaded. Seems to me, that if your user is having this problem
and the ownership is set to the username, then they have ftp'd their
stuff into webspace instead of publishing via http in Frontpage. If
files are uploaded (even within FP) via ftp then they are owned by
[username] wheras if they are uploaded via http they are owned by
"Nobody".

HTH

Kind Regards

Si Watts
SiWIS http://www.siwis.co.uk

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