unwanted password protection in browser

[Bill]

I recently uploaded a site that I've uploaded to many
times before using FP 2002. For some reason, now when
anyone goes to the site, they are prompted for the user
name and password that I use to publish to the site. This
basically means no one can go to the site, since I'm the
only one with the password. I think there is something
wrong with extensions or admin settings at my host's end,
but he says that I am the only client with this problem,
and so it must be on my end. I have several other sites
on his host, and only one of them has ever had this
problem before. He says that when he fixed that one, he
had to reinstall the extensions, but I remember him
telling me that he had also reduced the security
settings. He says it's my problem. Any suggestions?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

If everyone has to input a username and password to view the site, it is not
your problem, it is the host's, no matter what they say. Have them run a
check and fix on the server extensions, or reinstall them. You have no
control over server permission problems.

 

[Kathleen]

This happened to me once. The problem was: my index
page was trying to load a graphic that was in my cgi-bin,
thus the user was being prompted to enter the username
and password so the page could finish loading. Do a
search on the html of your index page for any file or
image that the page wants to load that is in a protected
folder. If you find something, move the file in question
out of the protected folder and re-insert it into your
index page.

-Kathleen

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I've received the following from my
host, he still seems to be of the opinion that it's a
local issue. A little background: I host half a dozen
Front Page sites. Only two have had this problem. All
webs are set up independent of each other, there is no
inter-web or intra-web publishing taking place, as he
suggests might be happening. In particular, he suggests
that the prompt is occuring because I have published from
another website, but that's not the case. I do not
remember ever setting a security role, so I assume all are
set using the Front Page default setting.

He suggested I pose the following to you:

here's what i did to brd that I also just had to do for
savor. change the "anonymous access" setting
from "browser" to "contributor".

now, why is it that your newsnet does not need this
setting? and any other of my FP sites? it is my conclusion
again that this is an issue on your end. there is no need
for me to modify my server to accomodate this new security
role, or is there? nothing changed or "broke" with the
extensions on the server. you have some kind of security
role set on your copy that requires this role on the
server or you are publishing from the newsnet web to these
other sites, which the sites think is coming from
newsnet.....causing the prompt.

why dont you send your contact this resolution and see
what he says.....be sure to include the fact that you have
no problem with one of your sites, and the others had been
ok until you made changes to them.

 

[bill]

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to
be the fix. All images are being retrieved from an images
folder on the site, which is not a protected folder.
Thanks, though.

 

[Bill]

Thanks for your input. If there is something going on
with Sharepoint Extensions, or IIS administration, I am
not aware of it. I have never done anything with
extensions, or administration. I set up a web, I publish
it. For some reason, two of the 7 sites I work with have
now had this problem, and we are still trying to figure it
out. My host still says it's a local issue, though he's
done a work-around by changing the anonymous access
setting from browser to contributor. But my other sites
have not been set up that way, and they don't have this
problem. I'm stumped.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

 

[Jim Carlock]

Do you have a link to a page that is not working?