Hello,

Our company has a clustered web server that host web sites for employees. It
is a 2003 active/passive, IIS 6 with FrontPage 2002 extensions. The employee
s
build their sites with FrontPage and then publish through FrontPage or by
FTP. When we originally built the server we were able to push content throug
h
FrontPage with either node being active. What is happening now is that users
can only connect to the web server with FrontPage on node1 when it is active
but not on node2 when it is active. Users are however able to push content
through FTP with no problem regardless of which node is active. Nothing has
changed (as far as we know to the nodes). Any help is appreciated.

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Tubbaguts,

We ran into something similar.  The FrontPage extensions are not cluster
aware and there are some files that are not being replicated to the other
node in the cluster.  There are a couple of Microsoft KB articles that tell
you not to install the FrontPage extensions on a cluster, but I wrote an
article that describes how I got them to work.  It's not really that hard
and we haven't had a single issue with it.  The article is here:

http://www.deitterick.com/articles/...ons_cluster.htm

If you need any more info, let me know.

--
Doug Deitterick
CNA
Systems Administrator
Pennsylvania college of Technology
One college Avenue
Williamsport, PA 17701
ddeitter@pct.edu
"Tubbaguts" <Tubbaguts@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Our company has a clustered web server that host web sites for employees.
> It
> is a 2003 active/passive, IIS 6 with FrontPage 2002 extensions. The
> employees
> build their sites with FrontPage and then publish through FrontPage or by
> FTP. When we originally built the server we were able to push content
> through
> FrontPage with either node being active. What is happening now is that
> users
> can only connect to the web server with FrontPage on node1 when it is
> active
> but not on node2 when it is active. Users are however able to push content
> through FTP with no problem regardless of which node is active. Nothing
> has
> changed (as far as we know to the nodes). Any help is appreciated.

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Doug,

Doug,

Thanks for responding to my post on MS groups. We tried your solution for
FrontPage but our clients still could not authenticate via FrontPage to thei
r
webs. What we came up with was to keep the metabase on each cluster node the
same/insync by using the export/import feature of the 'iiscnfg.vbs' script.
We do an export daily and in the event of a failure/failover we do a manual
import of the metabase once we determine that the metabase is ok and was not
the cause of the failover. Not sure how your server is set up but we have ou
r
default web site and 4k+ directories off of it.
https://defaultwebsite.franklin.edu/studentname. This may be the difference
and why ours did not work as yours did.

Rich

"Doug Deitterick" wrote:

> Tubbaguts,
>
> We ran into something similar.  The FrontPage extensions are not cluster
> aware and there are some files that are not being replicated to the other
> node in the cluster.  There are a couple of Microsoft KB articles that tel
l
> you not to install the FrontPage extensions on a cluster, but I wrote an
> article that describes how I got them to work.  It's not really that hard
> and we haven't had a single issue with it.  The article is here:
>
> http://www.deitterick.com/articles/...ons_cluster.htm
>
> If you need any more info, let me know.
>
> --
> Doug Deitterick
> CNA
> Systems Administrator
> Pennsylvania college of Technology
> One college Avenue
> Williamsport, PA 17701
> ddeitter@pct.edu
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> news:82AD1E7F-65F4-49C6-9113-018589B6C0C7@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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