Forms not working in Publisher 2007, I've read everything!!

[Mitch C]

I have a form on my website for people to submit their email address to me to
receive a newsletter. It worked when I built it, but now it gives a "404"
web page not found error. I scoured this site for information (back to 2004)
and followed all of the advice I could find for Publisher 2007. I have even
been on the help line with my domain provider who is dumbfounded as to why my
site won't publish to the web. I had been manually uploading all of the
files to the site, but the extentions weren't seeing the forms, I guess. I
have deleted all index files on my provider site. My FrontPage extensions
are working. Here's what happens: When I go to "publish to the web" and put
the address in the file name (http://thecollegesherpa.startlogic.com) I get a
response that says "the file name you have entered is too long or contains
illegal characters. Try again using a different name." According to the
documentation and my provider, I should be getting a popup box for my login
to publish. What's missing here?? How can I get this to work and gather
email addresses from people who are trying to give them to me?

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

By "manually loading" I guessing that you mean via FTP? FTP will break the
FP extensions and they will need to be repaired or reinstalled by your
host - this will happen anytime you use ftp with FPSE.

Your site has no homepage so nothing is viewable at the url you provided.

Is that the CORRECT address your host provided for you to publish to?

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





|I have a form on my website for people to submit their email address to me
to
| receive a newsletter. It worked when I built it, but now it gives a "404"
| web page not found error. I scoured this site for information (back to
2004)
| and followed all of the advice I could find for Publisher 2007. I have
even
| been on the help line with my domain provider who is dumbfounded as to why
my
| site won't publish to the web. I had been manually uploading all of the
| files to the site, but the extentions weren't seeing the forms, I guess.
I
| have deleted all index files on my provider site. My FrontPage extensions
| are working. Here's what happens: When I go to "publish to the web" and
put
| the address in the file name (http://thecollegesherpa.startlogic.com) I
get a
| response that says "the file name you have entered is too long or contains
| illegal characters. Try again using a different name." According to the
| documentation and my provider, I should be getting a popup box for my
login
| to publish. What's missing here?? How can I get this to work and gather
| email addresses from people who are trying to give them to me?

 

[DavidF]

Are you running XP or Vista? Are you running IE7 or IE6? The HTTP uploading
protocol is different depending on your answers.

And as Rob indicated you may need to uninstall and reinstall your FPSE if
you used FTP uploading at any point. Many times you can do that yourself
from your control panel.

DavidF

 

[Mitch C]

I am running Vista and IE7. When I say manually, I was uploading each
individual file to the http folder (I did not use ftp). There is no home
page because I deleted all of the files so that I could "publish to the web"
directly from Publisher 2007 as the instructions I read indicated. Hopefully
knowing this will give you the information needed to help me with the error
message I'm getting when I try to publish to the web.

In the meantime, I'm going to put the pages back up so that at least I have
a website.

Thanks!

 

[DavidF]

OK, you still are confusing me. You say that you can't upload via HTTP and
don't upload via FTP, then how the heck are you going to "put your pages up
so you can at least have a website..."? Please explain.

DavidF