Publishing remote to local causes ASP pages to stop working

[Mark Kuebeler]

I am new to FrontPage 2003 development, so am baffled by this problem. I
have created a local site under the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder and created a
simple "hello world" type of ASP page which works fine. But as soon as I
connect to a remote web site and publish files from the remote site to the
local site (so I can develop and test before publishing back to the remote
site), the ASP page will no longer run. If I try to open the ASP page all I
get is a progress bar in the status bar that slowly moves but never gets past
the midway point. I have a copy of the same ASP page in the top level of the
localhost site and it still works. Did I miss some configuration step for
the local site? I'm sure I'm just missing something really simple. I've
been working on a local copy of the remote web site for over a week with just
a text editor and all the ASP pages I have worked on have functioned
perfectly. However the remote site is maintained by multiple users with FP,
so I need to get into that way of doing things.

Thanks!

 

[Steve Easton]

Since you said: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot I'm assuming the machine has IIS
installed.

If so, open the web in FrontPage by using http://localhost/webfoldername
open the page and then preview in browser,

An asp page needs to be opened via an http:// request, and won't work from a
disk based request.


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[Mark Kuebeler]

I am opening the page in Internet Explorer with the URL

http://localhost/MySite/test123.asp

Prior to publishing files to the site this worked as expected. After
publishing the files it just hangs. Opening http://localhost/test123.asp
still works, though.

 

[Steve Easton]

Is IIS running??

Try stopping and restarting IIS.


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[Mark Kuebeler]

Well, I think I stumbled on a solution, though not necessarily the right one.
I'm not sure what I did to create the local web site with FP (I can't seem
to reproduce what I did in the first place), but in the IIS management app
the folder that was the top level of the site I created was shown under the
"Default Web Site" branch with the same icon as the "IISHelp" folder. I'm
not sure what that signifies, looks kind of like an open box. In the
properties dialog on the Directory tab the application settings had the
application name the same as the folder name, with "Remove" and
"Configuration" buttons enabled. If I click on "Remove", the folder icon
changes to a regular folder, I guess becoming just a sub-folder of the
default web site, and application name changes to "Default Application".
"Starting point" changes, too, and the configuration button is disabled.
Having done that the ASP script works.

Thanks again!