FrontPage Extensions not working.

motobrandt

motobrandt

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I've tried everything that I can think of. I've searched the forums here and made sure that the owner:group names are the name of the User of the site. I've deleted and reinstalled and made new sites and my customers keep getting server extensions not installed and things not working.

Does anybody have a successful FrontPage system setup with Direct Admin? I know that FP sucks and I wish that it would go away but I have around 20 customers that are pissed right now because FP is not working on my new DA server. I'm going to lose them if I can't fix this.

Please help. I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 if that makes a difference.

TIA

Brandt
 
Hello,

What have you tried?
What domain are you using (make sure to use www. in front)

check your error logs:

/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/httpd/fpexec_log
/var/log/httpd/suexec_log
/var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.error.log

John
 
ok

I just got a trial version of FrontPage 2003 and made a little hello world page to try to publish. I created a site in Direct Admin and enabled FrontPage extensions. WHen I tried to publish it gave me the main error saying that :

Unable to open 'http://frontp.bli.net'.
Server error: Server error: FrontPage security violation.
Possible causes:
1. The web server may not have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
2. The web server may be temporarily out of service.
3. If you are connecting through a proxy server, the proxy settings may be incorrect.
4 An error may have occured in the web server.

If this server does not support the FrontPage server Extensions, FrontPage may still be able to publish to the server via FTP or WebDAV. Please select one of those options and try
again.

Then I went in and
cd /home/blifp/domains/frontp.bli.net
chown -R blifp:blifp public_html

I again tried to publish and got the same error.
 
SUPPORT?!?!?!

John? anyone? This is a pertinent problem so any response would be appreciated.
:confused:
 
ok

I did create frontp.bli.net as a full domain. It does resolve. But www.frontp.bli.net doesn't resolve. Are you saying the FrontPage will only work with a domain that uses www for the hostname? If that is so then I will set up another test site.

In the meantime I'll look at the error logs that you mentioned.

thanks,
Brandt
 
nothing at all in the logs

wierd there's nothing in the FPlogs or any that are of any consequence. There is the

[Wed Mar 10 10:55:26 2004] FrontPage SUID Error: invalid environment arguments

error but that was before I changed the group name to match the user of the domain.

Is it possible that FrontPage extensions are not running? I don't even know how to check. I'm in a tight spot :)

thanks,
Brandt
 
AllowOverRide All ??

Hey John,

I found this while searching. link

I looked at my httpd.conf and I don't have the AllowOverRide All line like this guy suggests. Should I try it?
:confused:

Maybe someone could look on their RH machine and see if that line is in the httpd.conf file (it's right above the virtual host declarations)

Thanks,
Brandt
 
something else

I also found that in the main httpd.conf there is this

</VirtualHost>

Listen 8090
<VirtualHost _default_:8090>
DocumentRoot /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/admin-exes
DirectoryIndex fpadmcgi.exe
<Directory /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/admin-exes/>
AddHandler cgi-script .exe
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

But in the virtual domain httpd.conf there is no mention of port 8090 only port 80. I'm fishing but I'm trying to help. ;)
 
At this point, you can try anything. I'm getting a bit P.O. about not being able to figure out what's going on. I'll probably eventually find it.. but it's taking longer than I'd like.

I think the problem is in the binary, but knowing Frontpage, it might be elsewhere, including the httpd.conf file.

John
 
Can anyone publish via Frontpage?

Did you get FP to publish? I'm having the same problems.
Thanks for any advice.
 
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