FP2003 Authoring problem

[John Harris]

Hi,
I am fairly new to working with websites. My old web server (Windows 2003
Web Edition) died of M/B failure. I rebuilt and reinstalled everything
manually and copied my FP2003 site across to the new machine. Now I cannot
edit any pages.

I can open the site in FP. I get a message about default authoring mode.
Most of the options in the menus are greyed out.

Can someone please tell me what I need to do to be able to edit the site?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You needed to publish. Also on your Windows 2003 Server, Control Panel, Admin Tools | Share Point
Admin (should have a IE page icon), you need to configure the Extensions for each web site, then
publish the sites from the other location to the server.

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[John Harris]

Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your reply but I'm not sure I follow. After the old server died
I only had a copy of my site. I copied that on to the new server. I have
since tried publishing the site which succeeded but I still cannot edit. I
have done the SharePoint Admin thing but am not sure of exactly what to do
here and maybe I've made a mistake.

Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you have a current site hosted on a remote server that has the FP extensions, open the site
directly in FP using File Menu | Open Web / Site and then publish it back to
http://localhost/mysite.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

You should always publish a FP web from on location to another, never copy.

It you want to have a backup, use NTBackup, which is automatically installed for Windows XP Pro and
all Windows 2003 Servers, this way you can backup the Inetpub folder and configuration info to a
second HD, etc.

Windows XP Home users, have to install NTBackup from Add/Remove Windows Components or directly from
the CD.

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[John Harris]

Hi Thomas,
Sorry about the delay in replying but I had to go away for a while.

I understand what you have said but I am now in the position where I cannot
recover except through a copy. Is there a way to do this or to reproduce
the site without starting from scratch again?

 

[John Harris]

Never mind. I found what I needed in a previous reply by you to someone
else.

Thanks for your expertise Thomas!

 

[John Harris]

I thought I had it but when I opened the site a second time to confirm I was
unable to edit again.

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New Zealand

 

[John Harris]

Found out what it was now. I had inserted the code from CA's Security
Warning Centre and that appears to have locked up FP. Deleted the code in
Notepad and have now linked to Symantec.

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John Harris (Harry)
Computer Troubleshooters - Hornby
Christchurch
New Zealand

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

So everything is fine now?

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[John Harris]

Yes. I still don't know the exact cause but when I removed the code from CA
I could edit it all again. I tested (before deleting the code) and every
time I opened up the page with the CA code it locked up.

Thanks for your feedback.