Confused with my settings for the forms to work.

[Roopa]

Hi

I am having a windows xp professional version 2002 service pack 2.

I ahve installed the IIS from the control panel and also installed the
Frontpage 2000 server extensions along with it. I want to know what else I
would have to install in order for my forms and asp pages to work.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Forms should work, and definitely asp pages. If ASP pages don't work, then
something went wrong during the install process. One big thing to keep in
mind is where your forms will store data. If they are storing it to an
access database or a file, you'll need to have the correct permissions on
those files or the folders they are in. Specifically, the anonymous internet
user account (IUSR) will need write access to the file in order to store
data to it.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Roopa]

Where do I have to set the IUSR permission ? I have a file to which I am
trying to write the data.. Is it on the windows explorer properties ?

I also tried to put it into an access database but it did not work as well..

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you let FP create the database or you imported the database into your current open FP web and let
FP move the database to the fpdb folder, then the permissions have already been set by FP.

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[Andrew Murray]

Forms *won't* work for sending email from http://localhost unless you set up
the mail transport setting. If you just want to get the forms working
(since I consider localhost a test platform only) then set them to send the
data to a text file or database; then you can change it back to email later
when you publish live.

 

[Roopa]

Hi

I tried it with the txt file as well.. it does not work. How do you check
for the permission settings that are needed on the files ?

Roopa

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Run a Server Health Check and let FP correct the permissions.

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