The Hit Counter web component can't be seen by IE 6.1

[David F]

Using: W2K+SP4, Office 2K + SP3, IE 6.1, FP 2003. FP Server Extensions
2002 installed.

1.
When trying to insert a Hit Counter (as the single web component in one page
of my site), on the Design View things seems to be OK. But when looking at
my site with the browser, whether locally on the computer where designed or
the remote server site, instead of seeing a count, I see a rectangular that
contains the words "Hit Counter" preceded by a small square with an X in it.
All the rest of the sight seems to be OK.
In theory I can understand that it would not work on the remote server if
for example that server does not support FP Server Extensions.
But why not working on MY computer?
The file fpcount.exe, which I presume to be invoked for handling the hit
counter function, does not show up anywhere in my local copy of my site nor
on the remote server copy of my site. Does it in either case expect to be
provided by the "Server Extensions" ?

2.
Another weird phenomenon is that when I look with my browser at the HTML
source file, again, whether on the local or remote site, and whether I have
the Hit Counter installed or not, I find the line:
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
So what the hell could that be?
1. It is true that I am using frames.
2. Ever since does IE 6.1 "not supporting frames"?
3. And most of all, other than the problem with the hit counter,
everything else seems and behaves just fine, including scrollable frames,
etc. ...
Any idea about that?

Many thanks,
David

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

1. Did you publish the site to the server that has the FP extensions via FP's File Menu | Publish
Site via http? Locally you must be running IIS and the extensions and viewing the page via
http://localhost/pagename.htm.

2. When you create a frameset in FP, you will always see a non-frame section. This is what will be
seen by browsers that do not support frames or have frame support disabled.

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[David F]

I was not aware that in order to benefit from FPSE for a server based
website, I need to publish even into my own localhost. (I am in this
business only since last week...).
After I published it to my localhost, and accessed my site through it rather
then the file based access of the copy built by FP, the hit counter appears
working !.
What is still a little bit weird to me is that when I try to access the
default page
of even the locally published copy on a file based URL, even then the Hit
Counter does not work but this looks to me as not a "must to understand"
thing.

Now I can feel safer that my site is OK and the reason it does not work on
the remote hosting server is because that one probably does not support FPSE
as FP warns me when I am uploading my site to that remote server.

Anyway, seems I have learned quite a bit from your response so many thanks!

David

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Glad to hear my respond help!

Actually, since you do have localhost, you should work and maintain your site direct via
http://localhost in FP, then you don't have to worry about publishing to.

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