Making forms work

K

Kevin Spencer

Well, I'm confused, as I answered another post in this thread that looks
exactly like your problem, but the name was signed "Jim." See below.any
ideas what's going on?


Thanks Jim! Excellent responses to my questions!

These sorts of issues can often have multiple problems associated with them,
so answering all of my questions was very helpful. I'll skip the "no
possible issues" questions/answers, and move directly to the "possible
issues" questions/answers:

First, thanks for posting the form code. I'm going to skip the
email-oriented stuff, since the form you posted doesn't use email. I asked
about it because you had mentioned that at some point it was configured to
send email. Taking email out of the picture simplifies things a good bit.
I see the GET for the form page, followed by the PUT for
_vti_bin\shtml.dll for the error message. The sc-status code is 200.
Click to expand...

This is odd. You should see a POST, rather than a PUT. I copied your form
code and pasted it into a new web page in a local server-based web, using
FrontPage 2003 (which ises the same server extensions as FP 2002). It
modified the code as follows:

<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Label-Fields="TRUE"
U-File="_private/form_results9.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV" startspan --><input
TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults"
i-checksum="30097" endspan --><p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset"
value="Reset" name="B2"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
</form>

Testing the form, it worked correctly, and if you use the same code, it
should also work for you. I'm not sure why your code is different. However,
there is one question I didn't ask you, which may have something to do with
it. Did you have the server-based web opened AS a server-based (HTTP) web
site before editing the page? How FrontPage writes its code is dependent
upon the context in which the editor is running. FrontPage can create HTML
documents in file-based webs, and even forms (which don't work).

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Expect the unaccepted.

Jim said:
Web based server. Accessed as: http://servername/subwebname

Subwebname is an FPSE2002 subweb.


Yes. via url link to http://servername/subwebnate/test_form.htm.

The form page loads correctly.

View source shows:

<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>test form</title>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST" action="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/test_form.htm"
webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Label-Fields="TRUE"
U-File="_private/form_results9.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV"
startspan --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" i-checksum="43374" endspan --><p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset"
value="Reset" name="B2"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
</form>

</body>



I'm not sure. How do I do this?

In checking the smtp server properties, I find that anonymous access is
configured and no default domain selected under access
control/authentication.


Why would this matter? I don't understand.

Also, if I'm not using a mail response, would it still matter?


I see the GET for the form page, followed by the PUT for
_vti_bin\shtml.dll for the error message. The sc-status code is 200.

That's it.

Thanks....

Jim
Click to expand...


ChrisP said:
I don't see a response where you provided modified form code.
I now have SMTP installed for my IIS server. I also believe it is
configured
properly.
I tested the form on the server and on another PC via HTTP and still
getting
that same error message that takes me to nortbot.htm

I really appreciate all your time and help. I don't know if I am answering
all your questions correctly, but I am trying. Do you need any additional
info?



Kevin Spencer said:
It looks like you didn't see my previous response. Did you? I gave you
some
modified form code that should work.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.

ChrisP said:
I tried to answer all your questions. However, I did get the logfile you
wanted to know about. I do want the results emailed to me. I don't have
SMTP
installed and configured. I thought I didn't need it. I don't have any
domains. This is one server on my network I use to test out things. Let
me
know if you need any additional information. I really like to get this
worked
out. Below I pasted my logfile and the code from my form.html file.

Here is what is in my last log file. I didn't add all of the info, but
I
think this is what is important:

2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
301 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
304 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:39 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
404 0 2
2005-08-12 22:14:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:53 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Default.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
301
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:58 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:20:06 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:25:07 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64

CODE from form.html:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>New Page 1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>New Page 1</H1>
<HR>
<P>
This is an explanation of the purpose of the form ...</P>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="_derived/nortbots.htm"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" b-label-fields="TRUE"
s-email-address="(e-mail address removed)" s-email-format="TEXT/PRE"
U-File="_private/formrslt.htm" S-Format="HTML/DL" startspan
--><strong>[FrontPage Save Results Component]</strong><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="6561" --><P>
Please provide the following contact information:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Name</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_FullName" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Title</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Title" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Organization</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Organization" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Home Phone</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_HomePhone" SIZE=25 MAXLENGTH=25>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>E-mail</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Email" SIZE=25>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit Form">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>
<HR>
<H5>
Author information goes here.<br>Copyright © 1999 [OrganizationName].
All
rights reserved. <BR>
Revised:
<!--WEBBOT BOT=TimeStamp
S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%m/%d/%y" startspan
-->08/12/05<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" i-checksum="12900"
endspan --></H5>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Thanks for your time,
Chris


:

Hi Jim,

Several possibilities present themselves to me:

1. Is this a web server-based web? You didn't say.
2. Are you making an HTTP request for the form page? You didn't say.
3. Have you configured permissions for the SMTP server? What email
address
are you using for the FROM? Unless the FROM email address is the same
domain
as the SMTP server, the SMTP server must be configured to allow
relaying.
4. Have a look at the web server logs. You can find them in the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1 folder, and they are text files.
Perhaps
you will find a clue there.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Everybody picks their nose,
But some people are better at hiding it.

Hi, everybody

I've reinstalled FP 2002 after removing winrar (see my other thread,
thanks for the insight GC). It took a bit of time squeezed in due
to
many
other committments to accomplish it, but I finally got back to where
I
was....sort of.

I've installed IIS (5.1) on a clean install XP Pro machine with
FP2002
server extensions and created a test web w/FP 2002 SE.

I've sucessfully opened the test web, created a default.htm page and
a
very simple form using "insert form" under tools. The fom consists
of a
the basic submit/rest buttons and a text field.

I've tried this all 3 ways (actually, I went and created 3 identical
but
separate test webs, but that's beside the point):

First I configured the form with both a text file and and email
message,
using the form properties to set in the email address and verifying
the
file name.

Then I configured the form with ONLY an email message.

Then I configured the form with ONLY a text file

I configured IIS to use the default smtp server with the basic
source/reply-to email addresses (which are valid).

Here is what I get with all three scenarios on an xp machine running
IE
6,
sp2.

"FrontPage Error.
User: please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more
details.
"

That's it.

FYI, there is no information in the event log of the machine
accessing
the
test web or in the event log of the machine running II6. Nada.

I've searched the knowledge base and found Q201799, which applies to
FP2000SE. However, the requisite event log entry is not present on
the
server and I don't think the conditions apply. Ditto for 196489,
308242,
264977, 296697, 174406, etc.).

FWIW, the "results" file, with the correct name with a .csv file
type
and
date/time stamp, is created in "\_private" but with a zero length.

If this is a permissions issue on the server, I'm not sure how to
correct
it or how to correctly specify permissions using the FP2002SE
administration page.

Any ideas? With an event log entry, I haven't a clue what's wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Jim
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C

ChrisP

I am an idiot. I am so sorry for taking all your time. I know how to
configure and run servers and that is why I was puzzled. I thought it was a
configuration problem.

I needed to publish via http url. I seen it a dozen times and dismissed it
because I thought I was doing that. I would publish through FP to my server,
but I was doing it through UNC path to my server not http.

Oh well. I really need to pay more attention to details and not what i think
it may be.

Thanks so much for all your time and help. God bless you and all that help
others on these newsgroups.

Thanks,
Chris

Kevin Spencer said:
It looks like you didn't see my previous response. Did you? I gave you some
modified form code that should work.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.

ChrisP said:
I tried to answer all your questions. However, I did get the logfile you
wanted to know about. I do want the results emailed to me. I don't have
SMTP
installed and configured. I thought I didn't need it. I don't have any
domains. This is one server on my network I use to test out things. Let me
know if you need any additional information. I really like to get this
worked
out. Below I pasted my logfile and the code from my form.html file.

Here is what is in my last log file. I didn't add all of the info, but I
think this is what is important:

2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
301 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
304 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:39 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
404 0 2
2005-08-12 22:14:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:53 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Default.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 301
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:58 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:20:06 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:25:07 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64

CODE from form.html:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>New Page 1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>New Page 1</H1>
<HR>
<P>
This is an explanation of the purpose of the form ...</P>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="_derived/nortbots.htm"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" b-label-fields="TRUE"
s-email-address="(e-mail address removed)" s-email-format="TEXT/PRE"
U-File="_private/formrslt.htm" S-Format="HTML/DL" startspan
--><strong>[FrontPage Save Results Component]</strong><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="6561" --><P>
Please provide the following contact information:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Name</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_FullName" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Title</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Title" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Organization</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Organization" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Home Phone</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_HomePhone" SIZE=25 MAXLENGTH=25>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>E-mail</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Email" SIZE=25>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit Form">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>
<HR>
<H5>
Author information goes here.<br>Copyright © 1999 [OrganizationName]. All
rights reserved. <BR>
Revised:
<!--WEBBOT BOT=TimeStamp
S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%m/%d/%y" startspan
-->08/12/05<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" i-checksum="12900" endspan --></H5>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Thanks for your time,
Chris


Kevin Spencer said:
Hi Jim,

Several possibilities present themselves to me:

1. Is this a web server-based web? You didn't say.
2. Are you making an HTTP request for the form page? You didn't say.
3. Have you configured permissions for the SMTP server? What email
address
are you using for the FROM? Unless the FROM email address is the same
domain
as the SMTP server, the SMTP server must be configured to allow relaying.
4. Have a look at the web server logs. You can find them in the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1 folder, and they are text files.
Perhaps
you will find a clue there.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Everybody picks their nose,
But some people are better at hiding it.

Hi, everybody

I've reinstalled FP 2002 after removing winrar (see my other thread,
thanks for the insight GC). It took a bit of time squeezed in due to
many
other committments to accomplish it, but I finally got back to where I
was....sort of.

I've installed IIS (5.1) on a clean install XP Pro machine with FP2002
server extensions and created a test web w/FP 2002 SE.

I've sucessfully opened the test web, created a default.htm page and a
very simple form using "insert form" under tools. The fom consists of a
the basic submit/rest buttons and a text field.

I've tried this all 3 ways (actually, I went and created 3 identical
but
separate test webs, but that's beside the point):

First I configured the form with both a text file and and email
message,
using the form properties to set in the email address and verifying the
file name.

Then I configured the form with ONLY an email message.

Then I configured the form with ONLY a text file

I configured IIS to use the default smtp server with the basic
source/reply-to email addresses (which are valid).

Here is what I get with all three scenarios on an xp machine running IE
6,
sp2.

"FrontPage Error.
User: please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more
details.
"

That's it.

FYI, there is no information in the event log of the machine accessing
the
test web or in the event log of the machine running II6. Nada.

I've searched the knowledge base and found Q201799, which applies to
FP2000SE. However, the requisite event log entry is not present on the
server and I don't think the conditions apply. Ditto for 196489,
308242,
264977, 296697, 174406, etc.).

FWIW, the "results" file, with the correct name with a .csv file type
and
date/time stamp, is created in "\_private" but with a zero length.

If this is a permissions issue on the server, I'm not sure how to
correct
it or how to correctly specify permissions using the FP2002SE
administration page.

Any ideas? With an event log entry, I haven't a clue what's wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Jim
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C

ChrisP

I think you replied a while ago to another thread, which I began. I only got
2 replies and I never heard back from anyone. I seen another person who
started a thread and had the exact same problem as me only he described it
better than me.


Anyway, Thanks so much for everything,
Chris
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Glad you got it solved!

--
:-D,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.

ChrisP said:
I am an idiot. I am so sorry for taking all your time. I know how to
configure and run servers and that is why I was puzzled. I thought it was
a
configuration problem.

I needed to publish via http url. I seen it a dozen times and dismissed it
because I thought I was doing that. I would publish through FP to my
server,
but I was doing it through UNC path to my server not http.

Oh well. I really need to pay more attention to details and not what i
think
it may be.

Thanks so much for all your time and help. God bless you and all that help
others on these newsgroups.

Thanks,
Chris

Kevin Spencer said:
It looks like you didn't see my previous response. Did you? I gave you
some
modified form code that should work.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.

ChrisP said:
I tried to answer all your questions. However, I did get the logfile you
wanted to know about. I do want the results emailed to me. I don't have
SMTP
installed and configured. I thought I didn't need it. I don't have any
domains. This is one server on my network I use to test out things. Let
me
know if you need any additional information. I really like to get this
worked
out. Below I pasted my logfile and the code from my form.html file.

Here is what is in my last log file. I didn't add all of the info, but
I
think this is what is important:

2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
301 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
304 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:31 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:39 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
404 0 2
2005-08-12 22:14:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:14:53 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.100
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:44 192.168.123.103 GET /Default.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
301
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/index.htm - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:52 192.168.123.103 GET /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/
Page=Website_Dev/index.htm|Image=2 80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:19:58 192.168.123.103 GET /Website_Dev/form.html - 80 -
192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:20:06 192.168.123.103 GET
/Website_Dev/_derived/nortbots.htm -
80 - 192.168.123.103
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
200
0 0
2005-08-12 22:25:07 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 OPTIONS / - 80 - 192.168.123.100
Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 200 0 0
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64
2005-08-12 22:26:16 192.168.123.103 PROPFIND /website_dev - 80 -
192.168.123.100 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 207 0 64

CODE from form.html:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>New Page 1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>New Page 1</H1>
<HR>
<P>
This is an explanation of the purpose of the form ...</P>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="_derived/nortbots.htm"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" b-label-fields="TRUE"
s-email-address="(e-mail address removed)" s-email-format="TEXT/PRE"
U-File="_private/formrslt.htm" S-Format="HTML/DL" startspan
--><strong>[FrontPage Save Results Component]</strong><!--webbot
bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="6561" --><P>
Please provide the following contact information:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Name</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_FullName" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Title</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Title" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Organization</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Organization" SIZE=35>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>Home Phone</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_HomePhone" SIZE=25 MAXLENGTH=25>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<EM>E-mail</EM></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Contact_Email" SIZE=25>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit Form">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>
<HR>
<H5>
Author information goes here.<br>Copyright © 1999 [OrganizationName].
All
rights reserved. <BR>
Revised:
<!--WEBBOT BOT=TimeStamp
S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%m/%d/%y" startspan
-->08/12/05<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" i-checksum="12900"
endspan --></H5>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Thanks for your time,
Chris


:

Hi Jim,

Several possibilities present themselves to me:

1. Is this a web server-based web? You didn't say.
2. Are you making an HTTP request for the form page? You didn't say.
3. Have you configured permissions for the SMTP server? What email
address
are you using for the FROM? Unless the FROM email address is the same
domain
as the SMTP server, the SMTP server must be configured to allow
relaying.
4. Have a look at the web server logs. You can find them in the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Logfiles\W3SVC1 folder, and they are text files.
Perhaps
you will find a clue there.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Everybody picks their nose,
But some people are better at hiding it.

Hi, everybody

I've reinstalled FP 2002 after removing winrar (see my other thread,
thanks for the insight GC). It took a bit of time squeezed in due
to
many
other committments to accomplish it, but I finally got back to where
I
was....sort of.

I've installed IIS (5.1) on a clean install XP Pro machine with
FP2002
server extensions and created a test web w/FP 2002 SE.

I've sucessfully opened the test web, created a default.htm page and
a
very simple form using "insert form" under tools. The fom consists
of a
the basic submit/rest buttons and a text field.

I've tried this all 3 ways (actually, I went and created 3 identical
but
separate test webs, but that's beside the point):

First I configured the form with both a text file and and email
message,
using the form properties to set in the email address and verifying
the
file name.

Then I configured the form with ONLY an email message.

Then I configured the form with ONLY a text file

I configured IIS to use the default smtp server with the basic
source/reply-to email addresses (which are valid).

Here is what I get with all three scenarios on an xp machine running
IE
6,
sp2.

"FrontPage Error.
User: please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more
details.
"

That's it.

FYI, there is no information in the event log of the machine
accessing
the
test web or in the event log of the machine running II6. Nada.

I've searched the knowledge base and found Q201799, which applies to
FP2000SE. However, the requisite event log entry is not present on
the
server and I don't think the conditions apply. Ditto for 196489,
308242,
264977, 296697, 174406, etc.).

FWIW, the "results" file, with the correct name with a .csv file
type
and
date/time stamp, is created in "\_private" but with a zero length.

If this is a permissions issue on the server, I'm not sure how to
correct
it or how to correctly specify permissions using the FP2002SE
administration page.

Any ideas? With an event log entry, I haven't a clue what's wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Jim
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J

Jim

Kevin,

Thanks for the response, sorry about the delay in trying this. I've been
patching a whole bunch of 2003 servers, 2000 and xp machines to close the
PnP exploit these last few days.

I appreciate your helping me. Thanks.

First of all, you were correct, it was a "POST' and not a "PUT" in the log.
My error.

I did a copy/ paste of your generated form source while in html edit mode.

This is how it ended up in view source when thepage was loaded:

<form method="POST" action="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/testform3.htm"
webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" s-label-fields="TRUE"
u-file="_private/form_results9.csv" s-format="TEXT/CSV" startspan --><input
TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults"
endspan i-checksum="43374" --><p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset"
value="Reset" name="B2"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
</form>

I notice that the checksum values are different from your example. And the
"endspan" keyword in your example will not save after the checksum parameter
in my example.

But I still get the same error result when I submit the form.

I edit the page by opening with an explicit http://servername/testwebname in
"open web" or under "recent webs".

And just to double check, "my network places" shows the "network place" for
the test web to be http://servername/testwebname as well. In other words,
it is not of the form \\servername\folder\folder.....

Any ideas are appreciated.

Jim
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Hi Jim,

Sorry, I was out of town for a few days. I'm kind of puzzled by your
results. As to the checksum value, that is not necessarily a problem. But
why the form doesn't work puzzles me. I must confess, I don't have FrontPage
2002, but FrontPage 2003, although it uses the same server extensions. Have
you tried recalculating hyperlinks? It may be that the server extensions are
poorly configured or corrupted somehow.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Paranoia is just a state of mind.
 

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