Extensions Corrupt FP2002

K

Kuma

I have many publishing issues and the host (currently still testing) left me a quick note mentioning it may be the file extensions and would like to uninstall, reinstall extensions.

To better understand extensions:

Is this an issue that has truly been resolved in FP 2003?
What is the reason for extensions? What do they do for the user, why were they built into FP?
What causes corruptions aside from FTP?
My site is very heavy in photos (practically all photos) - could this play a role in how the site was corrupted?
Would I be better off to post live and use gallery or some other photo program?
Is it best I re-build from scratch? as the site on my local may have corrupt extensions? (And I may move to FP 2003 anyways)

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

The FrontPage Server Extensions are a collection of functions lumped into
one add-in to the web server. Mostly, they solve the problems of the typical
webmaster going out and finding seperate scripts to do various things, such
as search the site, create a guestbook, save form information to a file,
etc.... The corruption is usually caused by FTP'ing the files. The FrontPage
Server Extensions in integrate with the web server and enable publishing
thorugh http directly to the web server. FTP does not talk directly to the
web server, it just talks to the FTP service which will enable you to
publish files to a location that the web server is using. This causes a
problem because the files that the FP Server Extensions need get
over-written and confused, leading to corruption. Sometimes a virus scanner
on the server can lead to corruption when the virus server touches some
files, though this is rare and only happened on one of my test servers so it
may not be a typical scenario.

The photo gallery shouldn't have any effect on the site.

FP 2003 cannot really resolve this issue as it's more an issue with the
server extensions themselves and the last version of the extensoins released
were the FP 2002 Server Extensions, there will be no FP 2003 extensions.

Usually when the extensions are corrupt, they are on the hosting server.
This isn't so bad because usually all it means is that you just have to
re-publish the site in it's entirety after the extensoins have been fixed.
This will almost always work, though as with almost everything, for some
reason it just doesn't sometimes. Just remember, when publishing publish
using http and not FTP when publishing to an FP-enabled web server.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

Kuma said:
I have many publishing issues and the host (currently still testing) left
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me a quick note mentioning it may be the file extensions and would like to
uninstall, reinstall extensions.
To better understand extensions:

Is this an issue that has truly been resolved in FP 2003?
What is the reason for extensions? What do they do for the user, why were they built into FP?
What causes corruptions aside from FTP?
My site is very heavy in photos (practically all photos) - could this play
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a role in how the site was corrupted?
Would I be better off to post live and use gallery or some other photo program?
Is it best I re-build from scratch? as the site on my local may have
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corrupt extensions? (And I may move to FP 2003 anyways)
 
T

Ted Knight

Thanks said:
the last version of the extensoins released
were the FP 2002 Server Extensions, there will be no FP 2003 extensions.

Just remember, when publishing publish
using http and not FTP when publishing to an FP-enabled web server.
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I just upgraded to FP 2003 and after a thorough reworking
of my site, tried to publish for the first time. I got
the error message "your server does not support the
latest version of FP extensions" or words to that effect.
Now I see that no such latest version exists.

Looking back, I see that I have been publishing to FTP
all along, because of problems publishing to http at the
start even with FP 2000. The http address is
http://www.tedknight.com and the FTP is
ftp://fdnw2k3.fdn.com/web/ .

In your opinion, will I need to find a new web server? If
I am not looking for FP 2003 extensions, what is it I
will need to publish successfully? Thanks in advance.

Ted
 
S

Steve Easton

Your site is hosted on a Microsoft server:

Host: www.tedknight.com
User-Agent: Sam Spade 1.14
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET


Just have your host enable / install the extensions for your domain.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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