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| Hello all,
I'm using Win2K3, IIS 6.0 with FPSE 2002 to host a website. Web content
are stored on a UNC Share. NTFS Permissions on this share is only given
to few users (some domain Admins, Admin of this website and one account
for anonymous user)
Structure of the IIS:
DefaultWebSite
MyWebSite ---> Website (Read) ( Anonymous)
UploadFldr -->Virtual Dir (Read, Write, Dir Browsing) (Basic only)
OtherWebsite
UploadFldr
Both 'MyWebSite' and UploadFolder points to the same UNC location. When
we extend any Website, its only the website which is extended and not
any of its WebFolders or Virtual Directory.
Virtual Directory is used as a web folder to connect VIA WebDAV to
upload/modify web content. Only Basic Auth is enabled so that Admin
will be able to login.
Problem: Once this setup is done, and Website is extended, if I try to
connect to the WebFolder as 'http://www.MyWebSite.com/UploadFldr' (open
as web folder), it throws error 'Could not open as web folder'. I
checked 'Web Client' service, but it was stopped.
Then i tried to access the website through FrontPage 2002 and was able
to (ofcourse by providing Admin's credentials). Surprisingly, after
that when i tried to connect to web folder via WebDAV, this time i was
able to.
I tried to replicate the scenario, and this time i found that when you
extend website using FPSE2002, there's one redirector (ISAPI Filter -
fpexedll.dll) which becomes available for this website, but its still
not active.
As long as it is not acive, the WebDAV functionality will not work, but
as soon as you connect through FP client to this website, this filter
comes into action and then everything works perfectly.
Has any one faced same problem before?
I want to skip this step of connecting to website through FP Client to
enable WebDAV connectivity. How can i achieve that?
Thanks in advance
~TJ
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