Re: I am unable to publish my web page to my Host, Why?
From: Thomas A. Rowe (tarowe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/10/04
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:23:06 -0500
If you are or have to use FTP to upload, then FP extensions are not installed and if installed will
be corrupted by using FTP.
-- ============================================== Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage) WEBMASTER Resources(tm) http://www.ycoln-resources.com FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc. ============================================== To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see: http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp "wjg" <wjg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D03CA72F-F558-49C1-990F-55B06514833E@microsoft.com... >I just had this problem with Comcast - and finally got an answer from help in > MS. Don't even bother calling Comcast - their 8 tech rep I talked to today > are absolutely clueless - I had to explain to 4 of them what frontpage > extensions do. > > This is what you should do; > 1. Make sure you can ftp into your account - straightne you password up and > make sure you got that working right. > 2. Publish with ftp to your website. Comcast reps should help you with > this. its upload.comcast.net - then its ask for your username and password > 3. once you got that working and you understand that - then do this go to > the comcast.net user page - go to the bottom left to Personal Webpages - > click the arrow to get the drop down menu - click on Web Site Builder tools, > then click on the frontpage extensions linke - then go through the list and > click what you want activated - to be honest - I am not sure what most do - > but one option is frontpage extension - I'd click on mailform to make sure > you got the mailto .cgi working (I don't know if that is what does that but > its onl 50K) > 4. Now - this is the damned question no one at comcast could answer - when > do the frontpage extensions actually get activated? Who the f knows?! Maybe > when they go and update the servers each night. MS told me to do this to > check if frontpage extensions are running - or I imagine you can use and ftp > program to see if they are in your directory > > http://home.comcast.net/~username/_vti_inf.html > returns the version > > http://home.comcast.net/~username/_vti_bin/shtml.dll > returns something if the extensions are running > > for me - MS hasn't installed them yet as those files do not exist in my ftp > directories and putting those links in browers return nothing. So - ACTIVATE > THEM now - and maybe the servers will catch your request whenever they do > backups or updates tonight. > > "Jim" wrote: > >> I use COMCAST as my Web Host and I am unable to post my web pages onto the >> internet. Has anyone had that problem?
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