FP2003 Authoring problem

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John Harris

Hi,
I am fairly new to working with websites. My old web server (Windows 2003
Web Edition) died of M/B failure. I rebuilt and reinstalled everything
manually and copied my FP2003 site across to the new machine. Now I cannot
edit any pages.

I can open the site in FP. I get a message about default authoring mode.
Most of the options in the menus are greyed out.

Can someone please tell me what I need to do to be able to edit the site?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You needed to publish. Also on your Windows 2003 Server, Control Panel, Admin Tools | Share Point
Admin (should have a IE page icon), you need to configure the Extensions for each web site, then
publish the sites from the other location to the server.

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John Harris

Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your reply but I'm not sure I follow. After the old server died
I only had a copy of my site. I copied that on to the new server. I have
since tried publishing the site which succeeded but I still cannot edit. I
have done the SharePoint Admin thing but am not sure of exactly what to do
here and maybe I've made a mistake.

Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

If you have a current site hosted on a remote server that has the FP extensions, open the site
directly in FP using File Menu | Open Web / Site and then publish it back to
http://localhost/mysite.

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