Mysterious File.

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Richard Gutery

Yo to all.

I have just discovered a very wierd thing in FP2K3. My HOME page is
Home.htm. The site works fine in development. Now the wierd thing.

When I puplish the site, the home page becomes Home.ASP!

I have many ASP pages in my development site, but nothing even remotely
close to the Home.asp that shows on the server. And, this site has been up
for months, which also means that as the site changes, we publish over and
over. This has never showed up in the past.

Any Ideas???

TX in advance

RG
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Home.asp must be the first file name in the list of default documents for the specific web, so this
needs to be corrected on the server.

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Richard Gutery

Hi Thomas. Good thought, but that was the first thing we checked. The
default doc is home.htm.

Also, if the default was something.asp, what give the server the right to
rename a file??? I tested that theory and made the default doc DUMMY.ASP,
then created a DUMMY.HTM file. I the published the site. All went as
expected except the mysterious home.asp showed up again.

Nowhere on my latptop (or any other server) is there a file called home.asp.
Yet, it appears everytime. Interestingly enough, the home.asp contains
exactly NOTHING! It's empty.

The server system (as is my laptop) is completely virus free, has no
contaminants at all.

Any other ideas???

RG
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Ask your host what is the first document name in the default document list for your web site on
their server.

When publish to a server that has the FP extensions, FP will always rename the default document to
the first name in the list as required by the web server.

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