Any guidance on on getting Forms to work on Yahoo SB Webhost

[David K.]

I've create a website on my PC using FrontPage 2002 which has 2 forms. When I attempt to save the form properties, it always tells me I'm missing the Front Page Server Extensions (FPSE) for email support. I select to keep the email info. Although the Yahoo Small Business Webhosting says it supports Front Page 2002 Srv Ext, when I upload/publish the website, the forms don't work. Yahoo's help pages about FP2002 Forms and Srv Exts. are poor at best. So I've looked at Front Page 2002 help and found the only place I can add FPSE is on a Windows Server with IIS. So, I happen to have a Window Server 2003 (WinSrv03) and loaded the IIS Application with the Front Page 2002 Srv Ext. It also appear I need to install the Mail Server Application to support SMTP. (OBTW this makes no sense to me.) OK, Fine. Now what? Yes, I've seen the MS KB Article #305675 on 'HOW TO: Use Server-Side Settings to Use E-Mail Features on Forms With FrontPage 2002' but it doesn't apply well to WinSrv03.

Questions: How do I add / convert / merge the current website files I have on my PC with the FPSE I have on the WinSrv03 and then upload/publish those files to the Yahoo SB Webhosting area? Do I need to load a copy of FrontPage 2002 software on my WinSrv03 then publish from my Server to Yahoo Webhost? Or do I publish to the WinSrv03 IIS then upload the files to the Yahoo Webhost

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Using Win2003 server on your end will have no bearing on publishing to
Yahoo, nor will it have anything to do with the forms and forms to email.
Yahoo is the host server.
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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
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| I've create a website on my PC using FrontPage 2002 which has 2 forms.
When I attempt to save the form properties, it always tells me I'm missing
the Front Page Server Extensions (FPSE) for email support. I select to keep
the email info. Although the Yahoo Small Business Webhosting says it
supports Front Page 2002 Srv Ext, when I upload/publish the website, the
forms don't work. Yahoo's help pages about FP2002 Forms and Srv Exts. are
poor at best. So I've looked at Front Page 2002 help and found the only
place I can add FPSE is on a Windows Server with IIS. So, I happen to have
a Window Server 2003 (WinSrv03) and loaded the IIS Application with the
Front Page 2002 Srv Ext. It also appear I need to install the Mail Server
Application to support SMTP. (OBTW this makes no sense to me.) OK, Fine.
Now what? Yes, I've seen the MS KB Article #305675 on 'HOW TO: Use
Server-Side Settings to Use E-Mail Features on Forms With FrontPage 2002'
but it doesn't apply well to WinSrv03.
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| Questions: How do I add / convert / merge the current website files I
have on my PC with the FPSE I have on the WinSrv03 and then upload/publish
those files to the Yahoo SB Webhosting area? Do I need to load a copy of
FrontPage 2002 software on my WinSrv03 then publish from my Server to Yahoo
Webhost? Or do I publish to the WinSrv03 IIS then upload the files to the
Yahoo Webhost?
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[David K.]

Just for grines, I uploaded it/published it to the WinSrv03 with IIS. I can view the pages fine, but when I go to submit a filled in form it takes me to an error page say "Front Page Server Extention Page." I tried re-calculating. That didn't help.

If FrontPage 2002 is giving me an error when I select OK in the forms properites, maybe the error should be fixed there. Is there a way to remotely edit the web page on the host and modify the form properties on the remote server? Do you think that would help?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

The bottom line is, if you don't ask the host (Yahoo) to configure the forms
to email transport (if they even support it), there is nothing *you* can do.
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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
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| Just for grines, I uploaded it/published it to the WinSrv03 with IIS. I
can view the pages fine, but when I go to submit a filled in form it takes
me to an error page say "Front Page Server Extention Page." I tried
re-calculating. That didn't help.
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| If FrontPage 2002 is giving me an error when I select OK in the forms
properites, maybe the error should be fixed there. Is there a way to
remotely edit the web page on the host and modify the form properties on the
remote server? Do you think that would help?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Just because a host supports the FP extensions, doesn't means they support
all features of the FP extensions. In order to have forms send email, the
host mist configure the extensions on their server to do so.

Have you contacted the host regarding this?

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Just for grines, I uploaded it/published it to the WinSrv03 with IIS. I

can view the pages fine, but when I go to submit a filled in form it takes
me to an error page say "Front Page Server Extention Page." I tried
re-calculating. That didn't help.

If FrontPage 2002 is giving me an error when I select OK in the forms

properites, maybe the error should be fixed there. Is there a way to
remotely edit the web page on the host and modify the form properties on the
remote server? Do you think that would help?

 

[Crash Gordon]

I have 2 webs on Yoohoo with FP ext. and the forms work fine, so does the forms email feature.

Go to the Yoohoo "Web Console" you'll see a place where you can un-install the FP extensions...un-install and re-install them...see what happens.

Have you ever had it working, and it stopped or is this your first attempt at geting forms to work?

R.


| Just for grines, I uploaded it/published it to the WinSrv03 with IIS. I can view the pages fine, but when I go to submit a filled in form it takes me to an error page say "Front Page Server Extention Page." I tried re-calculating. That didn't help.
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| If FrontPage 2002 is giving me an error when I select OK in the forms properites, maybe the error should be fixed there. Is there a way to remotely edit the web page on the host and modify the form properties on the remote server? Do you think that would help?