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[kimberley ski bum]

Hi I am trying to set up a forum at skikimberley.info but I keep getting the
following error message when trying to post the welcome message

Not Found
The requested URL /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/skikimberley.info/disc4_post.htm was
not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I know that file is there as I can see it when I open the server side.
Any help please
Thanks
Richard

 

[Ronx]

The extensions are trying to open a folder within the website named
skikimberley.info It is unlikely that this exists - if this is the
correct folder then remove the full stop and rename the folder to
skikimberley-info. Punctuation characters in links will often break
those links.
Otherwise, suggest you open the forum subweb in FrontPage and run
Tools->Recalculate Hyperlinks.

 

[kimberley ski bum]

Hi Ron
I have tried both the solutions you suggested but neither worked.
Richard

 

[Ronx]

In http://skikimberley.info/disc4_tocf.htm
delete all instances of </input> and </img>. This is unnecessary
invalid HTML since <input> and <img> tags are self closing.
Do the same in all other pages.

Open the online website at http://skikimberley.info
On http://skikimberley.info/disc4_post.htm you should see (in Code or
HTML view)

<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">
<!--webbot bot="Discussion" s-dir-name="_disc4"
s-article-format="HTML/BR"
u-header-url="_borders/disc4_ahdr.htm"
u-footer-url="_borders/disc4_aftr.htm"
s-toc-fields="Subject Date REMOTE_USER"
u-confirmation-url="disc4_cfrm.htm"
s-builtin-fields="REMOTE_NAME REMOTE_USER Date Time"
s-date-format="%d %b %Y"
s-time-format="%H:%M:%S %Z"
u-style-url="disc4_post.htm" startspan -->

In particular, make sure the form tag is as above.
Change something in the form (add a space at the end) and save the page.

A preview in Browser for this page should show the <form...> tag has
changed to
<form method="POST" action="../_vti_bin/shtml.exe/disc4_post.htm"
onSubmit="" webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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[kimberley ski bum]

Ok Ron I have got rid of all the </input> and </img>.
I have also altered the info/disc4_post.htm but it did not change
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">
so I did it manually but every time I tried to save the page it reverted to
the
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">
Regards
Richard

 

[Ronx]

You do have the live site at http://skikimberley.info open in
FrontPage?

The <form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit=""> will
never change in FrontPage. You must save the page and Preview in
Browser. Then view source in the browser.
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[kimberley ski bum]

Hi again Ron
Yes I was live in Front page when I changed things but I had not previewed
the source live. The source now reads

<form method="POST"
action="../_vti_bin/shtml.exe/skikimberley-info/disc4_post.htm"
onSubmit="" webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">

Regards
Richard

 

[Ronx]

<form method="POST"
action="../_vti_bin/shtml.exe/skikimberley-info/disc4_post.htm"

indicates that the forum post page (disc4_post.htm) is in a folder named
skikimberley-info
However, the page properties say that disc4_post.htm is in the root
folder for the website.

I suggest you run FP Cleaner from
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm, using the routines that
delete the temporary files and hidden cache files.

Also, delete the existing forum and start again.

I am wondering if the domain skikimberley.info is in a folder contained
by a different domain, and this other domain has the FP extensions
installed on it. If this is the case, make the folder skikimberley-info
a subweb, though it is still possible that the discussion web will still
fail since the extensions were not installed on skikimberley.info.
This thought is reinforced by the fact that
http://skikimberley.info/_vti_inf.html is not found.
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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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