Question: How to make Home Page an ASP page?

[Dwayne Conyers]

I want to change our index.htm to index.asp -- and doing this seems to break
all navigation in the web. The only other way I can think to implement this
is to make index.htm an empty page with a META TAG redirect to the ASP page.

How else can I accomplish this and maintain the FP navigation tools?

 

[Jim Buyens]

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I want to change our index.htm to index.asp -- and doing
this seems to break all navigation in the web. The only
other way I can think to implement this is to make
index.htm an empty page with a META TAG redirect to the
ASP page.

How else can I accomplish this and maintain the FP
navigation tools?

This is quirky, but in general you can just rename the
page.

Have you tried this and run into some problem?

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Kevin Spencer]

This is quirky, but in general you can just rename the

page.

You should be able to rename the page without any trouble as long as the
name you rename it to is one of the default home page file names in the IIS
configuration. If "index.asp" is NOT a default home page file name on the
server, ask the hosting service to add it.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Dwayne Conyers]

You should be able to rename the page without any trouble as long as the
name you rename it to is one of the default home page file names in the IIS
configuration. If "index.asp" is NOT a default home page file name on the
server, ask the hosting service to add it.

At this point it is still disk-based and I have IIS set up to recognize
default.htm, default.html, default.asp and the equivalents for index.etc but
it is frontpage that is complaining when I do the rename and it causes the
navigation structure to collapse when I do so...

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

It needs to be the first one in the default document list, i.e.,

default.asp
default.htm
default.html

FP only looks at the first one, so your host will also have to have it set
the same way.
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[David Berry]

Do you mean the FrontPage Navigation pages? Which version of FrontPage do
you have? If it's FP2000 then you need to upgrade to the newest service
pack since the first version didn't have support for ASP in the Navigation.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

No ASP page will work in a disk-based web. ASP is a web server ISAPI which
requires a web server to run.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Dwayne Conyers]

Do you mean the FrontPage Navigation pages? Which version of FrontPage do
you have? If it's FP2000 then you need to upgrade to the newest service
pack since the first version didn't have support for ASP in the Navigation.

It is the latest version, FP2003

 

[Jim Buyens]

At this point it is still disk-based and I have IIS set up to recognize
default.htm, default.html, default.asp and the equivalents for index.etc but
it is frontpage that is complaining when I do the rename and it causes the
navigation structure to collapse when I do so...

If you have IIS running, your should publish your disk-based Web onto
IIS, and thereafter always access your Web as a server-based Web.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
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