FP 2003 Guest Book results problem.

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Scott

Its my second day with FP 2003 so please bear with me if this is a
nOOb question. Serving a small personal site with IIS 5.1 on XP Pro.
Fully patched.
I don't have any form of MS office. I dont think that matters.

I put a guest book form on my site today. When I add a comment to the
text box and click "Submit Comments" I get a page that says this...
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FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a
web server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.

This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly if you
publish this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server
Extensions installed.

Click the <Back> arrow to return to the previous page.
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Ok, when I right click my site in IIS then all tasks>check server
extensions,
it says no problem found.

I try removing server extensions (to re-install) but it appears that
nothing happens.
Im storing my pages in inetpub\wwwroot. Perhaps its where im saving my
pages?
Heres the code from the guest book.htm file.

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Guest Book</title>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="slate 1011, default">
</head>

<body>

<p><font face="Cornerstone" size="6">Guest Book....Ok now I'm really
opening
myself up to abuse!</font></p>
<p><font face="Cornerstone">I have no idea how this will
work!</font></p>
<hr>
<p>We'd like to know what you think about our web site. Please leave
your
comments in this public guest book so we can share your thoughts with
other
visitors.</p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit>
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" u-file="guestlog.htm" s-format="HTML/DL"
s-label-fields="TRUE" s-builtin-fields="Date Time REMOTE_USER"
s-form-fields startspan --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP"
VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" i-checksum="43374" endspan -->
<h2><strong>Add Your Comments</strong></h2>
<p><textarea name="Comments" rows="8" cols="52"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Comments">
<input type="reset" value="Clear Comments"><br>
<br>
<em>After you submit your comments, you will need to reload this page
with
your browser in order to see your additions to </em></p>
</form>
<!--webbot bot="Include" tag="BODY" u-include="guestlog.htm" --><hr>

</body>

</html>

Is this an easy one? Or is it more complex? Heh heh...I'm sure a $40
trip to the book store will help!

Thanks, SL
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Did you create and test the site via http://localhost ?

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S

Scott

Well, no I didn't. I use FP to create pages, and save them in
\wwwroot. To test, I put my IP into the address bar of IE6. There's a
bit of a learning curve I guess. It sounds like I'm missing something
basic. I'll press a bit harder on F1.

Thanks, Scott
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

When you have a server installed, you should always use it by first always open the web as
http://localhost before working with your web content. Also be sure to always import any images or
other content into the web prior to using.

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WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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S

Scott

Thanks for your reply!

Your first reply was so short I knew I had some learning to do. I now
know the difference between a disk based and server based site. After
a subsequent attempt I got the guest book, hit counter ect. working.
Now the guest book results don't show up anymore. They show in
guestlog.htm but not on the site page itself.

I tried deleting and re-creating the guest book. No help.

I've been opening and editing http://localhost/mysite and then
publishing to http://localhost after reading that that method allows
me to keep the comment data ect for editing and then clean up the html
for publishing.

Are you saying that I should open and edit on http://localhost or that
I should open //localhost first and then open /mysite for editing but
still publish to //localhost? whew!

I also notice a significant difference in my pages when viewed in
design view and preview. I expect this is related to my inexperience
with the program and how to lay things out.

Thanks, Scott
 
S

Scott

Well, in regards to the guest book problem of not showing guest
comments on the site. First I deleted and re-created the guest book
page and re-publish. No help. I then decided to try unchecking all of
the boxes in "optimize html" and re-publishing the guest book.htm and
guest log.htm. This seems to have taken care of the problem. That
feature must be removing a required component or link.

Scott
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

When you use that feature/function you remove all webbot code, which also means the unless you keep
a original unaltered version of the file(s), FP will not be able re-open the page as it was
originally designed.

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
 

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