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[Francine]

Hi all, we use FP2003 and love it. We created a search page using
new page,
template,
search page.

It was easy and we followed all instructions. We then uploaded it to our
server (bCentral) but every time you start a search, you get the following

“The webpage cannot be foundâ€
In addition, this is the text in the address bar

http://www.eyespyli.com/_derived/nortbots.htm


Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanks
Fran

www.eyespyli.com

 

[David Berry]

When you created the page how did you put it on your server? You need to
publish the web using HTTP (File, Publish Site)

 

[Tom Willett]

The search feature requires http publishing (not FTP) to a server with the
FrontPage Server Extensions installed in order to function.

My tests indicate your host server does *not* have extensions installed.
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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| Hi all, we use FP2003 and love it. We created a search page using
| new page,
| template,
| search page.
|
| It was easy and we followed all instructions. We then uploaded it to our
| server (bCentral) but every time you start a search, you get the following
|
| "The webpage cannot be found"
| In addition, this is the text in the address bar
|
| http://www.eyespyli.com/_derived/nortbots.htm
|
|
| Does anyone have any ideas?
|
|
| Thanks
| Fran
|
| www.eyespyli.com
|

 

[Francine]

Thanks Tom, All of my other FP items work ie forms. I know that when I do not
have FP extensions installed none of my forms work.

I am not to sure what you and David mean about publishing http and not FTP.
We just click "publish Site" and let FP do it thing.

Thanks again.

 

[Francine]

Thanks David, I am not to sure what you ment about publishing HTTP vs FTP We
use FP 2003 and just select publish site and it does its thing.

Thanks
Fran

 

[Francine]

Hi Tom, we publish using the "FrontPage or SharePoint Services" selection.

 

[Francine]

David, we publish using the "FrontPage or SharePoint Services" selection

 

[David Berry]

Tom,

It look like her site does have the server extensions installed.
http://www.eyespyli.com/_vti_inf.html

 

[Ronx]

The line
<form action="_derived/nortbots.htm" method="POST"
onsubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;">

Indicates that the search page was FTPed to the server, or the server
extensions are broken.

References to nortbots.htm only appear in five cases:

1) You are testing on a disc-based website, including a FrontPage
disc-based web that is being browsed through a web-server.

2) You are testing on a website that does not have server extensions
installed or running

3) The site (or form page) was FTPed from a disc-based web, or
published using a FTP address for the destination, or published to a
file system destination including a network share or UNC address (like
\\machinename\path\webname). Publish must be to a URL of the form
http://example.com, or the site was published to a disc based location
(example C:/sitename/)

4) There is a bug associated with FrontPage98 which causes this
problem.

5) The site was correctly published, but the extensions were not
installed correctly or were mis-configured. Re-installing the
extensions may correct the problem

It is possible that bCentral does not support the FrontPage search
component.

FYI - your no-right-click script does not assist in debugging problems
such as this, is too easy to get round in IE, and completely fails in
FireFox anyway.

 

[Ronx]

Try opening the bCentral site in FrontPage, and running
Tools->Recalculate Hyperlinks.
This should restore the search correctly.

File->Open Site and type in http://www.eyespyli.com
Or use Remote Site view in the local copy and click the link: "Open
remote site in FrontPage".