"_vti_bin is invalid.." this error message stops the publishing

[Beemer Biker]

Somehow, my web page is now giving this error message

"Server error: The URL '_vti_bin' is invalid. It may refer to a
nonexistant file....etc

I have no idea where this came from. My site has been working for several
months and I just added a bunch of photos some of which had spaces and ' in
the name and had to delete them and rename them correctly. Not sure if that
had anything to do with the problem.

At the remote site I do see some directories that start with _ and sure
enough, that _vti_bin is one of them. there is nothing in the directores
except other directories that also start with "_"

On the left side of the "Web Site" (not the far left folder list) I see
_private
on the right hand side of the "Web Site" i see that same _private and also
_vti_bin, _vti_cnf, _vti_pvt, _vti_txt

can i just delete those folders since there is nothing there?

...thanks..

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

How are you seeing these folder on the remote site, via FTP?

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[Beemer Biker]

How are you seeing these folder on the remote site, via FTP?

yes, originally I set up the web page (yahoo) using front page extensions
but got an email from yahoo warning not to use 2003 extensions. Those
directories must be associated with extensions?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

There are no FP2003 extensions. FP2003 is designed to use the FP2002 or FP2000 extensions.

As long as you are not using the FP extensions, and have no plans to work on the site live directly
in FP, or use any features that requires the extensions, then you can delete these folders.

However, having the extensions will allow you to retrieve a complete copy of your web with all
themes, shared borders, FP navigations, if you use these, if you loose your local copy.

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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Beemer Biker]

Thanks, you are correct. I went back and read the faq..."Which FrontPage
components does Yahoo! support? supports server extensions for FrontPage
2002 only (these extensions are compatible with FrontPage 2000).
Thus only extensions compatible with 2000 are use. I am a novice on this
and when I ran into some error messages http://tinyurl.com/5wbdu and
switched to ftp.

I think my problem was with the files that had ' in their name. I went and
renamed all of them to remove the ' but i just checked the "code" of the htm
that referenced the filenames and I could see that when I renamed xxx'x to
xxxx the change did not carry into all the pieces of the htm. I did
remember clicking on "y" to change urls when I renamed the file but
apparantly some place else kept the ' . Anyway I just hit delete (JHD?)
when I saw the ' back every place in the htm page and tried re publishing
and it went o.k. this time.

 

[Windsun]

Yahoo is full of it.

I have been going around and around with them for 3 months now. The Yahoo
stores have the same warnings, even 2-3 pages of WHY they don't have the
2003 extensions installed. One of their techs told me they do not have the
2003 extensions installed because of "security problems". Yet if you check
the version numbers, it is 5.023 or something, which are the latest ones.

 

[Windsun]

None of the Yahoo/Geocities sites will support files with odd characters in
the name, or with any spaces in the name. I think about the only char you
can use is underscore and hyphen.

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