IIS5.1 Setup

[Dennis D.]

Software: FP 2002, XP Pro, IIS 5.1

I have a web in c:/inetpub/wwwroot
I can access the web using that path in FrontPage.
I have added a default.htm and if opened with MSIE browser the site works as
expected.
I can even open http://localhost/default.htm

But
If I try to 'open the web' http://localhost/ from FrontPage I get: You do
not have permission to access this web folder location.

If I try to open http://socrates/ , which is my computer name I get:
Connecting to web server... times out with error message: the folder
http://socrates isn't accessible. The folder may be located in and
unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filenames containes
a / or \.

Doing a little research I found this article about IIS 5.0.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;271071

Article ID: 271071
Review May 17, 2005
Revision 12.0

How to set required NTFS permissions and user rights for an IIS 5.0 Web
server

Should I use this article to setup IIS 5.1 with FrontPage 2002? Would I want
to?

How should I be administering the wwwroot web with IIS 5.1 and FrontPage
2002? I would like full functionality for FrontPage 2002, including subwebs,
and with the ability to publish to a commercial internet hosting service
that provides FP 2002 server extensions. I do not need to collaborate, but
would like server stats and version control that sharepoint services
provides. Not to much to ask I think. This is getting confusing and
entangled. Life was simple until I decided to add .Net Framework 1.1 to the
development environment. Could someone set me straight on this?

Yes, I know I should be moving to 2003, but next on the list will be
learning ADO.Net and ASP.Net.

Thanks,
Dennis D.,
http://www.dennisys.com/

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

What you may want to do is to go into the IIS MMC and use the permission
wizard if it's available. Usually it isn't once the FP extensions are
applied to a web. So, try right-clicking on the defualt web site and
selecting the New | Server Extensions Administrator and seeing if you can
add your user account to the list. Then right-click on the root web and
select All Tasks | Recalculate Web and then All Tasks | Check Server
Extensions. This may get the permissions going enought that you can at least
open FP and adjust them.

If all else fails, you can always reset the permissions for the wwwroot
through Windows Explorer so the Everyone group has Full access and propegate
those changes to the directories below. You may want to disconnect from the
Internet while you have the Everyone account set to full access. It may be
paranoid, but it never hurts to avoid unwanted hackes. That should let FP
get in there to begin restricting the permissions done again so that
anonymous users are browse only. You'll also want to add the IUSR account as
a user who can browse the site and the ASP.Net account (if you're doing .Net
development).

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

PS
In FP never open as server based web (http://localhost/) as a disc based web (c:/inetpub/wwwroot)
FP will flag it as a DBW and you may not be able to open it as server based web again

As Mark points out in the IIS MMC run the FP SE Health check and Recalc to see if it will "restore" the web to a server based web in
the FP meta data





| What you may want to do is to go into the IIS MMC and use the permission
| wizard if it's available. Usually it isn't once the FP extensions are
| applied to a web. So, try right-clicking on the defualt web site and
| selecting the New | Server Extensions Administrator and seeing if you can
| add your user account to the list. Then right-click on the root web and
| select All Tasks | Recalculate Web and then All Tasks | Check Server
| Extensions. This may get the permissions going enought that you can at least
| open FP and adjust them.
|
| If all else fails, you can always reset the permissions for the wwwroot
| through Windows Explorer so the Everyone group has Full access and propegate
| those changes to the directories below. You may want to disconnect from the
| Internet while you have the Everyone account set to full access. It may be
| paranoid, but it never hurts to avoid unwanted hackes. That should let FP
| get in there to begin restricting the permissions done again so that
| anonymous users are browse only. You'll also want to add the IUSR account as
| a user who can browse the site and the ASP.Net account (if you're doing .Net
| development).
|
| | > Software: FP 2002, XP Pro, IIS 5.1
| >
| > I have a web in c:/inetpub/wwwroot
| > I can access the web using that path in FrontPage.
| > I have added a default.htm and if opened with MSIE browser the site works
| > as
| > expected.
| > I can even open http://localhost/default.htm
| >
| > But
| > If I try to 'open the web' http://localhost/ from FrontPage I get: You do
| > not have permission to access this web folder location.
| >
| > If I try to open http://socrates/ , which is my computer name I get:
| > Connecting to web server... times out with error message: the folder
| > http://socrates isn't accessible. The folder may be located in and
| > unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filenames
| > containes
| > a / or \.
| >
| > Doing a little research I found this article about IIS 5.0.
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;271071
| >
| > Article ID: 271071
| > Review May 17, 2005
| > Revision 12.0
| >
| > How to set required NTFS permissions and user rights for an IIS 5.0 Web
| > server
| >
| > Should I use this article to setup IIS 5.1 with FrontPage 2002? Would I
| > want
| > to?
| >
| > How should I be administering the wwwroot web with IIS 5.1 and FrontPage
| > 2002? I would like full functionality for FrontPage 2002, including
| > subwebs,
| > and with the ability to publish to a commercial internet hosting service
| > that provides FP 2002 server extensions. I do not need to collaborate, but
| > would like server stats and version control that sharepoint services
| > provides. Not to much to ask I think. This is getting confusing and
| > entangled. Life was simple until I decided to add .Net Framework 1.1 to
| > the
| > development environment. Could someone set me straight on this?
| >
| > Yes, I know I should be moving to 2003, but next on the list will be
| > learning ADO.Net and ASP.Net.
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Dennis D.,
| > http://www.dennisys.com/
| >
|
|

 

[Dennis D.]

As Mark points out in the IIS MMC run the FP SE Health check and Recalc to
see if it will "restore" the web to a server based web in the FP meta data

IIS couldn't find the Health and Recalc documents among others.
Nor can I find the admin screen. The program mentions that the admin program
is too old.
I got the idea that it is referencing a Windows 98 fpadmin.dll, although I
don't have that software installed. I have an MSSQL server running, although
I haven't pulled a query from it yet. At any rate this is all way too
complicated for my normal user mentality. I chose to learn web languages.
Almost seems that I shouldn't have to learn network services on top of SQL,
JavaScript, HTML, ADO.Net, XML, XHTML, CSS, ASP.Net, and VB.Net just to get
a simple home based Windows XP Professional web server running a single
small website. I restored basic functionality, so I will make due with what
I have.

Since I have IIS 5.x what I encountered most often at MS was IIS 6 and
Windows Server 200x. No mention on whether I had to buy IIS 6 or if it was a
free download. MS is really selling enterprise anymore. Seems poor folks
like me are just getting in the way.

Thanks Mark and Stefan,

Dennis D.,
Visit the site at:
http://www.dennisys.com/