Publisher 2000 Submit Form

[Lisa Petersen]

I have been having problems getting my Submit Form working on my website. I
created the website using Publisher 2000 and my webhosting site is yahoo
small business. I was on the phone with them for some time yesterday and
they want me to call Microsoft to see if Publisher 2000 is in passive mode.
Not sure what this means. I can publish my site saving to a Publish folder
and then using yahoo's uploading process. Everything works great except for
the Submit form. While on the phone with Yahoo yesterday, we tested the
connection using FTP and Publisher was giving me an error that said, "cannot
find URL or something is wrong with Network Connection." We then tested the
URL and connection by downloading FileZilla and connecting that way and we
got through with no error messages so the real problem is in Publisher. I've
read many discussion readings in this site and others but I haven't found
someone with this problem using Publisher 2000 and yahoo. Please help me!
The site is http://www.safeguardhomeinspect.com.

Thank you so much for any advice!
Lisa Petersen

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

If you want to use Publisher's form handler you must have FrontPage Server
Extensions installed on your host AND they must be working....and you must
publish via http:// method NOT third party FTP. By trying to publish or
partially publish with FTP you will break the extensions. Have Yahoo repair
(you may be able to do this yourself if Yahoo has web based control panel
for you to use). Your site does have FPSE installed but they may be broken.
In ADDITION Yahoo must allow the FP form handler to work.

Or...check with Yahoo to see if they have another form handler you can use.

 

[Don Schmidt]

I'm a Publisher 2000 website builder also.

I attempted to send you a form and failed as you have experienced.

The address of the form is,

http://www.safeguardhomeinspect.com/--WEBBOT-SELF--

Does it look correct to you? I'm not familiar with forms but in time I
could be interested.

 

[DavidF]

reference: Publisher web publication forms 101:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80564.aspx

Reference: How to publish a Publisher web in HTTP:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80557.aspx
assuming that you are still running XP and IE6.

How to trouble-shoot Publisher web upload issues :
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80560.aspx

DavidF