Front page errors

SteveK42

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I have a user getting the following error:

The server could not complete your request. Contact your internet service provider or Web server adminstrator to make sure that the server has FrontPage Server Extensions installed.

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403 Forbidden
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.caom.us Port 80

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I'm running Linux, so there IS no author.exe...how can I get around this error?
 
Neither of those apply to me, though I appreciate you pointing them out. Unfortunately, it appears an author.exe file is needed, but my server has no such file.
 
Just did a search and that file should be located in:
/usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/exes/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/
So check that location for it. If it's not there either, try rebuilding with customapache
cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
./build update
./build all

Are you running apache1 or apache2? If the later the above commands will be different.

Edit: Umm, just to make sure. You did install frontpage extensions through DirectAdmin before trying to use Frontpage with it..... right?
 
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Yeah, I definitely did that first. :)

It's in that location; was it supposed to copy itself into his directory when he enabled frontpage extensions?
 
I can't say. I've never used Frontpage so...

Did you get any errors when you were installing FP?
Does it work for other users?
You might try asking DirectAdmin if your license has support.
 
No, no errors when installing; and I've never heard anyone else have a problem...unfortunately I don't have my own frontpage installation to test.
 
SteveK42 said:
I'm running Linux, so there IS no author.exe...how can I get around this error?
Do you have FrontPage turned on for the site?

If you're not server admin the server admin will have to do the troubleshooting for you.

Presuming you ARE admin...

What OS distribution are you using?

Jeff
 
Make sure that Front Page is turned on for the site.

If it is, then turn it off and then on again.

That should fix it.

If not, you might want to have DA support look at it.

Jeff
 
Remco00 said:
Dit you perhaps install mod_evasive?

I noticed once I installed mod_evasive on a test bed server, frontpage admin would no longer continue to work.
 
Solution

You are right. So uninstall mod_evasive and install dos deflate or use the whitelist directive to tell mod_evasive to ignore authorized addresses who are using frontpage. Other solution is to tweak the mod_evasive DOSSiteCount/DOSSiteInterval and DOSPageCount/DOSPageInterval ratios to a threshold that will allow frontpage to work but will still trigger when some launches a DoS attack.
 
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