Trouble With Frontpage

[webnovice]

I am trying to create a subweb on my site as well as set up some forms using FrontPage 2000. When I try to create my sub web, I get the following error:

 

"Server Error: Error initializing access control: can't inherit access control settings from the root web because it is miissing the AutUserFile and AuthGroupFile directives"

 

When I try to publish the form, I get an error indicating that I don't have or cannot access the frontpage server extensions.

 

As I am a relative web novice, there is probably something quite simple that I a messing up. Would truly appreciate any help.

 

Thanks!

[Vedat Gurtan]

Hi,

 

Try to reinstall the FrontPage extensions from Cpanel, that will not harm anything except if you have protected files or directories they will pe unprotected again.

 

There are two ways that I know to create a subweb. You can either setup a subdomain subdomain.******, or using FrontPage you can create a folder under your domain name manually.

 

With either way the directory that is just created does not automatically becomes a subdomain. When you are publishing files to the newly created foler with FrontPage it will ask you to convert the folder to a web or not, you can accept it. Or manually by right clicking the subfolder when in FrontPage you can select the option "convert to web folder" and then publish your subdomain files to the newly created web folder.

 

I hope that helps.

 

Regards,

 

Vedat Gurtan

[TCH-Don]

Has your domain name propagated yet?

 

from the total choice help site

"You can not publish to HTTP and a IP address in Frontpage 2000 or back. It will only publish to FTP.  Once your domain name resolves and is fully propagated it will upload just dandy. This bug was corrected in FP 2002 but persists in FP 2000 and earlier.

Simply put, you have to FTP until your domain propagates."

[webnovice]

Thanks for the tips.

 

I got my extensions reinstalled and working, but also found a faster way to create the protected subweb using the "Web Protect" feature of cpanel.

 

[Note this is probably a workable solution only because I don't need to actively manage a subscription list for the subweb, as I only have one "user" that I need to have access it. If I ever need to switch to a managed membership (i.e. people creating id's and passwords), I'll probably have to abandon this approach, but for now it seems to work great.]

 

- Webnovice