Thomas Rowe, I need your help!

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Wendy

Hey, you answered my post on 9/11 about Error 550. I
have talked to the server, they have checked EVERYTHING.
This is the same server AND the same website I published
back in January 2002 and I had NONE of these problems.
My client is TIRED of waiting. What is going on, here?
I am so frustrated because I have not changed anything---
same server, same FrontPage program, same URL. HELP!!!
I've even totally re-done the Photo Gallery twice. If
this were you, what would you do now?
 
One of the things you might try is to really ensure that this problem is
from your end. Thomas probably told you that 500 means it is the server end
and it sounds like it. I've worked with a lot of hosts, and there are a few
boneheads out there that will say they've checked it and everything is OK on
their end and make you pull your hair out. If you can find another server to
test your site on then publish to it and see if your site still works. If it
works on another server than it is definitely an issue with that server.
GeoCities and tripod both offer free FrontPage hosting (I believe). You can
sign up for a free account just to test. I'm not sure which features they
support, but it may be enough to verify that you aren't going crazy and the
problem isn't necessarily yours.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
The 500 series of errors are generated by the server you are publishing or
connecting to.

However as someone pointed out few days ago, the post started appearing here
after August 20th with this issue. I am beginning to think that a recent IE
update has something to do with.

I am currently looking into this.

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Mark,
I went ahead and published to a different server---and
guess what? It worked---all except the "hit counter"
still gives me the message that the fp extensions are not
installed. What now?
 
Wendy,

If you can open the site directly in FP on the new server, then the FP
extensions are install and working as long as you published via FP's http
mode.

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Wendy,

All I or any of the MVPs can do is to report the issue to our MS FP contact,
we have no control over when or if a solution or patch will be released.

There would have to be two groups involved, the FP and IE developer teams,
so it could take a while, as they would have to try and duplicate the
specific issue to generate the error.

However as you have indicated, buy changing host you no longer get the
error, as I and others have indicated, the 500 series of errors are those
generated by a server.

Now if everyone that is having this problem is also publishing to a Windows
server, then a 3rd MS group need to be involved.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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