[cobalt-users] [RaQ3/RaQ3i] FrontPage on User Web After CMU Import (Method POST Not Allowed)

["Sara Hartzell" <sara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our system administrator did a CMU backup from one RaQ3i to another.  There
was no other backup done except FTP of the files in the
/home/sites/sitexx/web folders and whatever files and folders within /etc
and /var that admin was authorized to FTP.

The CMU import finished without error, I'm told.  FrontPage is working on
all the domains that had FrontPage Extensions.  However, FrontPage is not
working on the user webs within those domains.  I've experimented with
removing and reinstalling the extensions for the user, removing the user and
setting the user back up with extensions installed, creating a brand new
user that wasn't on the old RaQ3i, but I always get the same error in
FrontPage:

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Authorization Required405 Method Not Allowed
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document
you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g. bad
password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials
required.
Method Not Allowed The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL
/~stest/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe.
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This is what the .htaccess file says in that _vti_aut directory:
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# -FrontPage-

Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
require user stest admin

</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthType Basic
AuthName ~stest
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Based on some previous postings, we changed owners on the user webs, but
that did not fix the problem.  When I removed the FrontPage extensions even
on the domain which has the user webs, the corresponding
/etc/local/frontpage/www.domain.com:80.cnf file was deleted (as it should
have been).  Other postings I saw don't apply either to the version of our
RaQ or the type of backup we did.

Does anyone know how we can fix this problem?  We have FrontPage version
4.0, CMU 2.27 was used for the backup and import, and all the latest OS4
security patches are installed.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Sara