Hit Counter not working on IIS 6 with fpse 2002

Gary · Sep 1, 2005

On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind company firewall) running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS 6, the hit counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is the placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled via FrontPage but it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a 'default.htm.cnt' file is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the root folder for this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the 'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is recreated however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when the home page is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the server and do not see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having experienced something similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a permissions issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

Steve Easton · Sep 1, 2005

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have server "write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

Gary · Sep 1, 2005

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also, is this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows explorer?

Steve Easton · Sep 1, 2005

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Gary · Sep 1, 2005

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private" folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write" attribute? There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you be specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

Thomas A. Rowe · Sep 1, 2005

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let FP manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow FP to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Tom Pepper Willett · Sep 2, 2005

Gary · Sep 2, 2005

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter should be.

-Gary

Steve Easton · Sep 2, 2005

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Gary · Sep 2, 2005

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our firewall.

Steve Easton · Sep 2, 2005

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Gary · Sep 3, 2005

Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:

Steve Easton said:
Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Gary said:

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our firewall.

Click to expand...

Gary · Sep 3, 2005

I meant to mention that it will be 3 weeks before I get to come back to this
issue. I will be off helping out in a tent city location in the gulf region
where Katrina came ashore.

Thanks for the follow-up, Steve.

-Gary

Gary said:
Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:



Steve Easton said:

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Gary said:

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our firewall.

:

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator
tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter should
be.

-Gary

:

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let FP
manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow FP
to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private"
folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write" attribute?
There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you be
specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

:

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also, is
this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows explorer?

:

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have
server
"write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer
On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind company
firewall)
running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS 6,
the hit
counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is the
placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled via
FrontPage
but
it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a
'default.htm.cnt'
file
is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the root
folder
for
this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the
'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is
recreated
however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when the
home
page
is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the server
and do
not
see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having experienced
something
similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a permissions
issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Rob Giordano \(Crash\) · Sep 4, 2005

Be careful out there.
My wife wants to go too.

Gary said:
I meant to mention that it will be 3 weeks before I get to come back to
this issue. I will be off helping out in a tent city location in the gulf
region where Katrina came ashore.

Thanks for the follow-up, Steve.

-Gary

Gary said:

Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:



Steve Easton said:

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our
firewall.

:

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look
at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator
tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten
security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter
should
be.

-Gary

:

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let
FP
manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow
FP
to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private"
folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write"
attribute?
There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you
be
specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

:

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also,
is
this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows
explorer?

:

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have
server
"write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind
company
firewall)
running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS
6,
the hit
counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is
the
placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled
via
FrontPage
but
it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a
'default.htm.cnt'
file
is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the
root
folder
for
this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the
'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is
recreated
however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when
the
home
page
is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the
server
and do
not
see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having
experienced
something
similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a
permissions
issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

Gary · Sep 27, 2005

Steve or anyone:

Any clue why there is only a placeholder on the web where I am placing this
hit counter?

-Gary

Gary said:
Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:



Steve Easton said:

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Gary said:

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our firewall.

:

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator
tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter should
be.

-Gary

:

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let FP
manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow FP
to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private"
folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write" attribute?
There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you be
specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

:

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also, is
this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows explorer?

:

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have
server
"write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer
On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind company
firewall)
running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS 6,
the hit
counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is the
placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled via
FrontPage
but
it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a
'default.htm.cnt'
file
is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the root
folder
for
this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the
'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is
recreated
however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when the
home
page
is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the server
and do
not
see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having experienced
something
similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a permissions
issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

Steve Easton · Sep 27, 2005

You need to change the digits setting.
You have it set at zero.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Gary said:
Steve or anyone:

Any clue why there is only a placeholder on the web where I am placing this
hit counter?

-Gary

Gary said:

Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:



Steve Easton said:

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our
firewall.

:

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look
at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator
tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten
security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter
should
be.

-Gary

:

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let
FP
manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow
FP
to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private"
folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write"
attribute?
There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you
be
specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

:

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also,
is
this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows
explorer?

:

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have
server
"write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind
company
firewall)
running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS
6,
the hit
counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is
the
placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled
via
FrontPage
but
it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a
'default.htm.cnt'
file
is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the
root
folder
for
this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the
'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is
recreated
however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when
the
home
page
is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the
server
and do
not
see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having
experienced
something
similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a
permissions
issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

Gary · Oct 7, 2005

Found a resolution that I wanted to share with you all.

Cause:

=====

1. The URL scan is installed in the web server. The URL scan was not
configured to enable the hit counter.

Resolution:

=====

Applied the following steps and it resolved the issue.

1. Right-click the Start menu, click Explore, and then locate the
following folder (where %windir% is your Windows folder, such as C:\Windows
or C:\Winnt):

%windir% \system32\inetsrv\urlscan

2. Right-click the Urlscan.ini file, and then click Copy.

3. Right-click the folder, and then click Paste.

4. A copy of the file is created and named Copy of Urlscan.ini.

5. Double-click the Urlscan.ini file (the file opens in Notepad).

6. Make sure, you have the following entries in the [AllowVerbs]
section.

GET ; allow GET (most Web requests)

HEAD ; allow HEAD requests

OPTIONS ; allow OPTIONS (Web Folders need this)

POST ; allow POST (FPSE and HTML forms need this)

7. In the [DenyExtensions] section, remove the ".exe" extension to
enable hitcounter

8. Also use the following KB
article(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825538)to
configure enable editing of your site using FrontPage 2003.

Gary said:
I meant to mention that it will be 3 weeks before I get to come back to
this issue. I will be off helping out in a tent city location in the gulf
region where Katrina came ashore.

Thanks for the follow-up, Steve.

-Gary

Gary said:

Here it is:


since 01/01/99</h6>
For Best Viewing Set Display to
800X600 Pixels 
Last revised:



Steve Easton said:

Ok
Switch to code view and copy and paste the web-bot info for the counter
and post it here.
It should look something like this:
( except mine uses a custom image )

<img
src="_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=index.html|Custom=images/95.gif"
alt="Hit Counter">

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

Unfortunately, no. It is a corporate intranet site and is behind our
firewall.

:

Is this publicly accessible so you can post a link and we can look
at
it??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Unfortunately, I had already run that option from the Adminstrator
tool.
There are 4 things that are checked, including the "tighten
security"
feature. There is still only a placeholder where the counter
should
be.

-Gary

:

The best way to set permission on the _private folder is to let
FP
manage them. You need to open the
Server Admin pages, then run a check on the extensions and allow
FP
to fix the permissions.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough.

When looking at the security properties for that "_private"
folder, what
account that is listed there should have the "write"
attribute?
There are
multiple accounts like Administrators, Network, etc...Can you
be
specific as
to what steps I need to take here?

Thanks,

Gary

:

IIS.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

Steve,

What account do I apply the "write" permissions to? Also,
is
this done
within IIS or at the folder and file level in windows
explorer?

:

Make sure the _private folder and the htm.cnt file have
server
"write"
permissions applied.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

On a site I migrated from a server (intranet behind
company
firewall)
running
Win2K server and IIS 5, to Win Server 2003 running IIS
6,
the hit
counter on
the home page is not working. The only thing visible is
the
placeholder. I
have deleted it 'live' on the server and reinstalled
via
FrontPage
but
it is
still not working. I have also confirmed that a
'default.htm.cnt'
file
is
created within the '_private' extensions folder on the
root
folder
for
this
website on the server. If I delete the hit counter, the
'default.htm.cnt' is
also deleted; when I recreate the hit counter, it is
recreated
however, the
file is not getting written to and does not change when
the
home
page
is
refreshed. I have checked the Event Viewer on the
server
and do
not
see any
error messages pertaining to this issue. Having
experienced
something
similar
to this in the past on IIS 5, I believe it is a
permissions
issue.

any suggestions?

Thanks.

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