Repost: How to set up Windows XP so that FrontPage recgonises local webs?

D

Dave Logan

I guess no-one here knows. Please could someone suggest a better newsgroup
to post to about this?

Dave


| Could the following article be relevant -
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909444?
|
| The article is way over my head but it does mention the COM+ application
| error that I'm getting. Please could some of the MVPs here look at this
| article and let me know if it's relevant to my problem, and if so, in
| layman's language, what I need to do to fix it?
|
| Dave
|
|
| || Some more information:
||
|| 1) If I open My Network Places and open "Add Network Place", and type in
|| http://localhost, I get the message "the folder you entered does not
| appear
|| to be valid. Please choose another." Thus the problem has nothing to do
| with
|| FrontPage, it is a Windows or IIS problem, and not a FrontPage problem.
||
|| 2) If I right-click My Computer and select Manage, then open the Event
|| Viewer, under Application I can see several Errors, all of which say
| "COM+"
|| under "Source"; and if I double-click on any of them, the Event
Properties
|| Description reads:
||
|| "The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal
|| state. This indicates a potential instability in the process that could
be
|| caused by the custom components running in the COM+ application, the
|| components they make use of, or other factors. Error in
|| d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\comsvcs\txprop\dtcinfo.cpp(158).hr=8000fffff:
|| TransactionManager->GetWhereaboutsSize. For more information see Help and
|| Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp"
||
|| If I click the link to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp, I get a
|| message saying There is no additional information about this issue in the
|| Error and Event Log Messages or Knowledge Base databases"
||
|| Does that give anyone a clue? Do I have a corrupt COM file? If so, how do
| I
|| fix it?
||
|| Dave
||
||
||
|| || Hi - can anyone help me? I'm reposting this because I've had no responses
| to
|| my original post, apart from one suggestion that I uninstall and
reinstall
|| IIS, which I did but it made no difference.
||
|| I'm using FrontPage 2000 and Windows XP SP2. I recently bought a new
| laptop
|| and I can't remember how to set up a local web so that FrontPage will
|| recognise it. On my old laptop, if I go into FrontPage and select File +
|| Open Web, I can see "Web folders" under "My Computer", and within "Web
|| folders" I can see "localhost", and all the websites that I have created
|| within localhost. Also, if I type http://localhost/ or
|| http://localhost/DavesWeb/, the website opens.
||
|| I have copied all my data to my new laptop, and installed IIS and the
|| FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. On my new machine I can go to
|| http://localhost/DavesWeb in my browser. But in FrontPage, if I select
| File
|| + Open Web, I can't see "Web folders" under "My Computer"; and if I type
|| http://localhost/ or http://localhost/DavesWeb/, I get a message saying:
|| "The folder http://localhost/DavesWeb/ [for example] isn't accessible.
The
|| folder may be located on an unavailable volume or protected with a
|| password." The message box also referred me to a text file, "wecerr.txt",
|| which stated: "Server Application Error. The server has encountered an
| error
|| while loading an application during the processing of your request.
Please
|| refer to the even log for more detail [sic] information. Please contact
| the
|| server administrator for assistance."
||
|| Yet as I say, I can open http://localhost/DavesWeb/ from within my
| browser.
||
|| Also, if I go into IIS on my new laptop and right-click the DavesWeb
| folder
|| and select "All Tasks" + "Open in FrontPage", it just opens index.html,
| but
|| not the website (i.e. there's no folder list). And if I right-click on
|| "Default Web Site" in IIS and select "All Tasks" + "Open With FrontPage",
| I
|| get in message in FrontPage saying: "The server could not complete your
|| request. Contact your Internet Service Provider or web server
| administrator
|| to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions
| installed.
|| For more specific information click Details." Clicking "Details" gives
the
|| same message as in "wecerr.txt" above.
||
|| Also, if I open "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage, and then right-click
on
|| the "Davesweb" folder and select "Convert to web", I get a message:
| "Server
|| error: Unable to create a disk-based web at "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb"
|| because the parent web would not be a disk-based web. Create the
| disk-based
|| web elsewhere, outside of your web server's document hierarchy." I tried
|| googling for this, but the posts I saw all said I should open the root
web
|| in FP as a server based web (http://localhost) - which as I say,
FrontPage
|| won't let me do.
||
|| And whereas on my old laptop, if I open http://localhost/Davesweb in
|| FrontPage and select Tools + Web Settings, the dialog box says "Server
|| version: Microsoft-IIS/5.1", on my new laptop, if I open
|| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage (it won't let me open
|| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb" as a web), and select Tools + Web
Settings,
| ,
|| the dialog box says "Server version: no server installed."
||
|| Clearly I haven't configured IIS correctly in order for FrontPage to
|| recognise that there is a local web on http://localhost/ - although my
|| browser does recognise it.
||
|| What do I need to do to fix this?
||
|| Dave
||
||
|
|
 
T

Tom Willett

I suggest you contact MS support.
--
===
Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
===
|I guess no-one here knows. Please could someone suggest a better newsgroup
| to post to about this?
|
| Dave
|
|
| || Could the following article be relevant -
|| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909444?
||
|| The article is way over my head but it does mention the COM+ application
|| error that I'm getting. Please could some of the MVPs here look at this
|| article and let me know if it's relevant to my problem, and if so, in
|| layman's language, what I need to do to fix it?
||
|| Dave
||
||
|| ||| Some more information:
|||
||| 1) If I open My Network Places and open "Add Network Place", and type in
||| http://localhost, I get the message "the folder you entered does not
|| appear
||| to be valid. Please choose another." Thus the problem has nothing to do
|| with
||| FrontPage, it is a Windows or IIS problem, and not a FrontPage problem.
|||
||| 2) If I right-click My Computer and select Manage, then open the Event
||| Viewer, under Application I can see several Errors, all of which say
|| "COM+"
||| under "Source"; and if I double-click on any of them, the Event
| Properties
||| Description reads:
|||
||| "The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal
||| state. This indicates a potential instability in the process that could
| be
||| caused by the custom components running in the COM+ application, the
||| components they make use of, or other factors. Error in
||| d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\comsvcs\txprop\dtcinfo.cpp(158).hr=8000fffff:
||| TransactionManager->GetWhereaboutsSize. For more information see Help
and
||| Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp"
|||
||| If I click the link to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp, I get
a
||| message saying There is no additional information about this issue in
the
||| Error and Event Log Messages or Knowledge Base databases"
|||
||| Does that give anyone a clue? Do I have a corrupt COM file? If so, how
do
|| I
||| fix it?
|||
||| Dave
|||
|||
|||
||| ||| Hi - can anyone help me? I'm reposting this because I've had no
responses
|| to
||| my original post, apart from one suggestion that I uninstall and
| reinstall
||| IIS, which I did but it made no difference.
|||
||| I'm using FrontPage 2000 and Windows XP SP2. I recently bought a new
|| laptop
||| and I can't remember how to set up a local web so that FrontPage will
||| recognise it. On my old laptop, if I go into FrontPage and select File +
||| Open Web, I can see "Web folders" under "My Computer", and within "Web
||| folders" I can see "localhost", and all the websites that I have created
||| within localhost. Also, if I type http://localhost/ or
||| http://localhost/DavesWeb/, the website opens.
|||
||| I have copied all my data to my new laptop, and installed IIS and the
||| FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. On my new machine I can go to
||| http://localhost/DavesWeb in my browser. But in FrontPage, if I select
|| File
||| + Open Web, I can't see "Web folders" under "My Computer"; and if I type
||| http://localhost/ or http://localhost/DavesWeb/, I get a message saying:
||| "The folder http://localhost/DavesWeb/ [for example] isn't accessible.
| The
||| folder may be located on an unavailable volume or protected with a
||| password." The message box also referred me to a text file,
"wecerr.txt",
||| which stated: "Server Application Error. The server has encountered an
|| error
||| while loading an application during the processing of your request.
| Please
||| refer to the even log for more detail [sic] information. Please contact
|| the
||| server administrator for assistance."
|||
||| Yet as I say, I can open http://localhost/DavesWeb/ from within my
|| browser.
|||
||| Also, if I go into IIS on my new laptop and right-click the DavesWeb
|| folder
||| and select "All Tasks" + "Open in FrontPage", it just opens index.html,
|| but
||| not the website (i.e. there's no folder list). And if I right-click on
||| "Default Web Site" in IIS and select "All Tasks" + "Open With
FrontPage",
|| I
||| get in message in FrontPage saying: "The server could not complete your
||| request. Contact your Internet Service Provider or web server
|| administrator
||| to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions
|| installed.
||| For more specific information click Details." Clicking "Details" gives
| the
||| same message as in "wecerr.txt" above.
|||
||| Also, if I open "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage, and then right-click
| on
||| the "Davesweb" folder and select "Convert to web", I get a message:
|| "Server
||| error: Unable to create a disk-based web at
"C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb"
||| because the parent web would not be a disk-based web. Create the
|| disk-based
||| web elsewhere, outside of your web server's document hierarchy." I tried
||| googling for this, but the posts I saw all said I should open the root
| web
||| in FP as a server based web (http://localhost) - which as I say,
| FrontPage
||| won't let me do.
|||
||| And whereas on my old laptop, if I open http://localhost/Davesweb in
||| FrontPage and select Tools + Web Settings, the dialog box says "Server
||| version: Microsoft-IIS/5.1", on my new laptop, if I open
||| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage (it won't let me open
||| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb" as a web), and select Tools + Web
| Settings,
|| ,
||| the dialog box says "Server version: no server installed."
|||
||| Clearly I haven't configured IIS correctly in order for FrontPage to
||| recognise that there is a local web on http://localhost/ - although my
||| browser does recognise it.
|||
||| What do I need to do to fix this?
|||
||| Dave
|||
|||
||
||
|
|
 
D

Dave Logan

Hi Tom

I contacted Microsoft support and eventually they came up with the following
fix, which worked. There is no kb article on the subject and I suggest that
you ask your buddy to create one and in the meantime create an MVP article
about it:

The solution was to remove and reinstall the settings for MS DTC (Microsoft
Distributed Transaction Coordinator) and re-registering COM components for
IIS, as follows:

1. Open the command prompt
2. Uninstall msdtc using the following command; "msdtc.exe -uninstall"
3. Open the registry editor using regedit.exe
4. browse to and delete the following registry string;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDTC
5. Reinstall msdtc using the following command "msdtc.exe -install"
6. Reregister the IIS COM components using the following command;
"%Windir%\System32\inetsrv\rundll32 wamreg.dll, CreateIISPackage"

Dave



|I suggest you contact MS support.
| --
| ===
| Tom Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| ---
| FrontPage Support:
| http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| ===
| ||I guess no-one here knows. Please could someone suggest a better newsgroup
|| to post to about this?
||
|| Dave
||
||
|| ||| Could the following article be relevant -
||| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909444?
|||
||| The article is way over my head but it does mention the COM+ application
||| error that I'm getting. Please could some of the MVPs here look at this
||| article and let me know if it's relevant to my problem, and if so, in
||| layman's language, what I need to do to fix it?
|||
||| Dave
|||
|||
||| |||| Some more information:
||||
|||| 1) If I open My Network Places and open "Add Network Place", and type
in
|||| http://localhost, I get the message "the folder you entered does not
||| appear
|||| to be valid. Please choose another." Thus the problem has nothing to do
||| with
|||| FrontPage, it is a Windows or IIS problem, and not a FrontPage problem.
||||
|||| 2) If I right-click My Computer and select Manage, then open the Event
|||| Viewer, under Application I can see several Errors, all of which say
||| "COM+"
|||| under "Source"; and if I double-click on any of them, the Event
|| Properties
|||| Description reads:
||||
|||| "The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal
|||| state. This indicates a potential instability in the process that could
|| be
|||| caused by the custom components running in the COM+ application, the
|||| components they make use of, or other factors. Error in
|||| d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\comsvcs\txprop\dtcinfo.cpp(158).hr=8000fffff:
|||| TransactionManager->GetWhereaboutsSize. For more information see Help
| and
|||| Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp"
||||
|||| If I click the link to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp, I get
| a
|||| message saying There is no additional information about this issue in
| the
|||| Error and Event Log Messages or Knowledge Base databases"
||||
|||| Does that give anyone a clue? Do I have a corrupt COM file? If so, how
| do
||| I
|||| fix it?
||||
|||| Dave
||||
||||
||||
|||| |||| Hi - can anyone help me? I'm reposting this because I've had no
| responses
||| to
|||| my original post, apart from one suggestion that I uninstall and
|| reinstall
|||| IIS, which I did but it made no difference.
||||
|||| I'm using FrontPage 2000 and Windows XP SP2. I recently bought a new
||| laptop
|||| and I can't remember how to set up a local web so that FrontPage will
|||| recognise it. On my old laptop, if I go into FrontPage and select File
+
|||| Open Web, I can see "Web folders" under "My Computer", and within "Web
|||| folders" I can see "localhost", and all the websites that I have
created
|||| within localhost. Also, if I type http://localhost/ or
|||| http://localhost/DavesWeb/, the website opens.
||||
|||| I have copied all my data to my new laptop, and installed IIS and the
|||| FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. On my new machine I can go to
|||| http://localhost/DavesWeb in my browser. But in FrontPage, if I select
||| File
|||| + Open Web, I can't see "Web folders" under "My Computer"; and if I
type
|||| http://localhost/ or http://localhost/DavesWeb/, I get a message
saying:
|||| "The folder http://localhost/DavesWeb/ [for example] isn't accessible.
|| The
|||| folder may be located on an unavailable volume or protected with a
|||| password." The message box also referred me to a text file,
| "wecerr.txt",
|||| which stated: "Server Application Error. The server has encountered an
||| error
|||| while loading an application during the processing of your request.
|| Please
|||| refer to the even log for more detail [sic] information. Please contact
||| the
|||| server administrator for assistance."
||||
|||| Yet as I say, I can open http://localhost/DavesWeb/ from within my
||| browser.
||||
|||| Also, if I go into IIS on my new laptop and right-click the DavesWeb
||| folder
|||| and select "All Tasks" + "Open in FrontPage", it just opens
index.html,
||| but
|||| not the website (i.e. there's no folder list). And if I right-click on
|||| "Default Web Site" in IIS and select "All Tasks" + "Open With
| FrontPage",
||| I
|||| get in message in FrontPage saying: "The server could not complete your
|||| request. Contact your Internet Service Provider or web server
||| administrator
|||| to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions
||| installed.
|||| For more specific information click Details." Clicking "Details" gives
|| the
|||| same message as in "wecerr.txt" above.
||||
|||| Also, if I open "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage, and then right-click
|| on
|||| the "Davesweb" folder and select "Convert to web", I get a message:
||| "Server
|||| error: Unable to create a disk-based web at
| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb"
|||| because the parent web would not be a disk-based web. Create the
||| disk-based
|||| web elsewhere, outside of your web server's document hierarchy." I
tried
|||| googling for this, but the posts I saw all said I should open the root
|| web
|||| in FP as a server based web (http://localhost) - which as I say,
|| FrontPage
|||| won't let me do.
||||
|||| And whereas on my old laptop, if I open http://localhost/Davesweb in
|||| FrontPage and select Tools + Web Settings, the dialog box says "Server
|||| version: Microsoft-IIS/5.1", on my new laptop, if I open
|||| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" in FrontPage (it won't let me open
|||| "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Davesweb" as a web), and select Tools + Web
|| Settings,
||| ,
|||| the dialog box says "Server version: no server installed."
||||
|||| Clearly I haven't configured IIS correctly in order for FrontPage to
|||| recognise that there is a local web on http://localhost/ - although my
|||| browser does recognise it.
||||
|||| What do I need to do to fix this?
||||
|||| Dave
||||
||||
|||
|||
||
||
|
|
 

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