linux hosting with PHP FP2003 SP2

[Nige]

I want to be able to publish a new site to a Linux server. The site uses PHP
and MySQL and FP extensions.

I've been successful in publishing other sites to windows servers and now
I'm trying to publish to the Linux server I find the system takes forever to
connect from my PC and eventually the server disconnects. I don't have this
problem with the windows servers. I asked a friend to connect to the sevrer
and they connected instantly so it appear to be an issue on my PC that is
strictly unique to publishing to these Linux servers. Is there anything in
the configuration of FP that would cause it to handshake with a Linux host
differently to a windows host if both servers are running FP extensions?

It doesn't make any difference what I'm trying to publish to the serever (I
tried a one page site) - the system will not connect immediately ....
eventually it connects but then will not publish as the server times out.
Again ... this is unique to my PC and only to the linux hosts.

 

[Steve Easton]

Check with your host.

I use Apache/UNIX servers and never have that problem.


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[Steve Easton]

Correct, there should be no difference.

Have you tried pinging the site from a command window and seeing what the response time is??

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[Nige]

I've spent the past week back and forth with the hosting provider. They have
tried unistalling and reinstalling FPE many times. It makes no difference.
I've even established a new hosting account and it's the same on that too. My
friend on the otehr side of the country can access the host immediately in FP
but when I try it I get a "sever unexpectedly terminated the connection"
becuase it takes so long. (I don't have that issue when publishing my windows
hosted sites). It has to be something with my FP setup and/or router but I
can't figure out what would be different between the response from the
windows & linux hosts. In theory there should be no difference right?

 

[Nige]

Av response is 86ms to a ping

Correct, there should be no difference.

Have you tried pinging the site from a command window and seeing what the response time is??

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[Nige]

I also tried publishing to the server in FP2000 and it made no difference.
Could it be an FPE problem ... unlikely since it appears to be working from
other locations?

Can't be something in the site cos I tried it with a blank site.

Tried it without the firewall and that made no difference (beside, it allows
pubishing through FP anyway).

I'm baffled. Ping response is quick but FP response is slow as mollasses.

 

[Steve Easton]

FrontPage uses the internet settings from Internet Explorer.
So if your browser is working properly, so should FrontPage.

However, give this a try:
Go here: http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm and download FP Cleaner.
Run the functions that clear the FrontPage temporary files and the Cache(*>web) files

See if it helps.


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[Nige]

If I use an FTP client to open the site it's instantaneous. Yet if I try to
open it as a network place in Windows Explorer, the system takes a full three
or four mins to connect. Could it have something to do with the ports FP is
trying to Open on the server?

 

[Steve Easton]

If I use an FTP client to open the site it's instantaneous. Yet if I try
to
open it as a network place in Windows Explorer, the system takes a full
three
or four mins to connect. Could it have something to do with the ports FP
is
trying to Open on the server?

Nope. The default for http is port 80 and the default for FTP is port 21.
And, as I said, FP uses the internet settings from IE.

Did you try FP Cleaner??


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Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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