i keep getting this message when i try and publish frontpage:

unable to open 'http://www.breadandwatertheatre.org'.
server error:
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.

i've tried publishing via ftp but the forms and such get deactivated during
this process.  my publishing feature used to work really well but i don't
know what happened to screw this all up.  I've contacted my server company
and they've wiped my site clean several times and reinstalled features
several times and i don't know aht else to do.
jason

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While your ISP has set up apache with mod_frontpage, they may not
installed the extensions for your site. (Apache/1.3.36 (Unix)
mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2
mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.27
OpenSSL/0.9.7a)
Have them check the Apache logs and the system messages files for
information as to why you may be having problems.

You need to use the PUBLISH http, not FTP when updating your site.
FTP'ing will
corrupt the extensions as you have found out.

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I am having the same problem. It started almost a year ago, when the host
server upgraded from IIS 5 to IIS 6. The web host claimed the problem was du
e
to my settings as they could login to the server and sent me screen dumps to
prove it. This did however not solve my problem.

About a month ago, a strange effect occured: during the day (local time
GMT+7) I could not login using HTTP authentication but got the very same
error message as you described. During the night, HTTP authentication worked
.

But I also discovered another phenomemon: during the day, that is when I
could not login, my visits to the website were logged, having the IP address
of the proxy server of my ISP in the c_ip field of the logfile. During the
night, when the authentication worked, my own IP address was logged.

This is very strange because in the settings of my browser, I disabled the
use of a proxy server. Even stranger: when I browse to a page like
http://www.dslreports.com/whois - which shows the IP address that fetched th
e
page, I see my own IP address, even when in the logfile on the host server,
the IP address of my ISP's proxy server is logged.

About a week ago, the daily changes stopped and now I can no longer publish
my website using FP extension services. The only way po update my site
without disabling the FP extensions on the server is to manualy ftp every
changed page to the server in Windows explorer.

I am still at a total loss. If I would have known the problems I was to
encounter, I would never have opted for frontpage as html editor nor for a
host offering fp extensions.
--
Marc


"jrteeter" wrote:

> i keep getting this message when i try and publish frontpage:
>
> unable to open 'http://www.breadandwatertheatre.org'.
> server error:
> 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 b
e
> incorrect.
> 4. an error may have occured in the web server.
>
> i've tried publishing via ftp but the forms and such get deactivated durin
g
> this process.  my publishing feature used to work really well but i don't
> know what happened to screw this all up.  I've contacted my server company
> and they've wiped my site clean several times and reinstalled features
> several times and i don't know aht else to do.
> jason

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Have you contacted your ISP about their proxy server, maybe they can disable
 it for your website IP
address.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
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"marc" <marc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:540EC56A-A53F-42CD-A94B-2ED23EAD3FB0@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
>I am having the same problem. It started almost a year ago, when the host
> server upgraded from IIS 5 to IIS 6. The web host claimed the problem was 
due
> to my settings as they could login to the server and sent me screen dumps 
to
> prove it. This did however not solve my problem.
>
> About a month ago, a strange effect occured: during the day (local time
> GMT+7) I could not login using HTTP authentication but got the very same
> error message as you described. During the night, HTTP authentication work
ed.
>
> But I also discovered another phenomemon: during the day, that is when I
> could not login, my visits to the website were logged, having the IP addre
ss
> of the proxy server of my ISP in the c_ip field of the logfile. During the
> night, when the authentication worked, my own IP address was logged.
>
> This is very strange because in the settings of my browser, I disabled the
> use of a proxy server. Even stranger: when I browse to a page like
> http://www.dslreports.com/whois - which shows the IP address that fetched 
the
> page, I see my own IP address, even when in the logfile on the host server
,
> the IP address of my ISP's proxy server is logged.
>
> About a week ago, the daily changes stopped and now I can no longer publis
h
> my website using FP extension services. The only way po update my site
> without disabling the FP extensions on the server is to manualy ftp every
> changed page to the server in Windows explorer.
>
> I am still at a total loss. If I would have known the problems I was to
> encounter, I would never have opted for frontpage as html editor nor for a
> host offering fp extensions.
> --
> Marc
>
>
> "jrteeter" wrote:
> 

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Yes, I've done that now last week when I went to pay my bill. They promised
to send somebody to my home.

Next day two young guys came, with full administrator access, they managed
to install FP Server Extensions and the FTP service (maybe that helps?).

I showed them the problem, I showed them the authentication problem and
showed them the logfiles. I sent them back with the message: "Exclude me fro
m
your proxy server. I will link all my computers to your proxy in IExplorer."

In the afternoon I called their boss and asked if he got their message. "You
must exclude me in your cisco". He would have to ask HIS boss.

At 4 pm I got a telephone call asking if it was not possible to use another
application besides FP.

It works now. This was a difficult one to figure out because it all started
when my host "upgraded" his server. So all suspicion pointed at him.
--
Marc


"Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:

> Have you contacted your ISP about their proxy server, maybe they can disab
le it for your website IP
> address.
>
> --
>  ========================================
======
> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>  ========================================
======
> If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
> a Service Pack or security update, please contact
> Microsoft Product Support Services:
> http://support.microsoft.com
> If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
> security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
>  ========================================
======
>
> "marc" <marc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:540EC56A-A53F-42CD-A94B-2ED23EAD3FB0@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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