The change *is* being made by the host server. Contact them.
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Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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FrontPage Support:
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| The server doesn't 'require' the home page to be named index.html, it's
| perfectly happy for it to be called index.htm (the relevant Apache
| DirectoryIndex directive has been issued in this particular case, and this
is
| now the norm for Apache servers). FrontPage is officiously doing something
| not asked for, without first checking to see whether it is unnecessary.
| Anyway, all I want to do is to turn this behaviour off. Does anyone know
how?
|
| "Ronx" wrote:
|
| > The home page is set by the server configuration. If the server
| > requires the home page to be named index.html (as is usual for *nix
| > servers), then FP will rename the page to be index.html.
| > Configure the server configuration files to allow index.htm as a default
| > page.
| > Using FTP on an extended site may corrupt the extensions, but FTP has no
| > intelligence, and ignores default page requirements set by the server
| > configuration.
| > --
| > Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| > FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| >
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
| >
| >
| >
| > | >
| > > This is something I never want, as even Apache etc. understand the
..htm
| > > extension nowadays. How can I turn it off?
| > >
| > > The background is that I test releases on a development server, and I
get a
| > > different home page extension depending on whether I copy the release
from
| > > development to live via FTP, or re-publish using FrontPage. This then
affects
| > > Google Analytics etc.
| >
| >