On one of my virtual accounts the user uploaded the site, and is now trying to edit it in Frontpage. He is getting errors--bad permission settings.

Do I need to change the ownership of the files?

Who needs to own them?

What is the syntax of that comand?

thanks

You enabled FP extensions for the site, created user, enabled FP extensions for the user, he uploaded in FP, and now he's having problems? If so, I'd remove FP form the site and just redo it again (reinstall the extensions). I know very little about FP and corruption of the extensions, so this is about the extent that I can help ya'

with FP all you can only do 99% of the time is to reinstall the extenstions.....

No, he uploaded via ftp.

if he uploads in FTP, it will break FP extenstions. you need to reinstall FP ex. and tell him to only FP when editing / uploading his site

How do you reinstall the extensions?

Originally posted by pgowder
How do you reinstall the extensions? What control panel are you using?
Is the server a Raq? I'm not going to assume; even though you posted in this forum.

Yes, it is a RaQ4.

Anybody have any ideas?

Sorry, I'd just remove front page from any user and then reinstall them for that user. If this is for the main site, then I'd remove frontpage for the site and reinstall fp again (might not be a bad idea anyway).

You may not have to re-install the extensions - your customer may just be able to re-publish with http in FP then all should be ok.

If not, go to site admin for the site, uncheck the box for FP extensions, save changes, re-check the box for FP, save changes.

Mark

I've reset the FP extensions, and he can now edit. However, not he cannot access his admin screen on the raq? I've tried resetting the password, creating a new admin, and still can't get into it??

thanks

Anyone have any ideas?

Is it too late to remove this site and start over? :D

I'm not sure exactly where you're at with the problem, but if you have uploaded a site via ftp with FP extensions, it will still work fine. You need to do a few things:

1 - chown all files in the users' web directory to nobody.

type:
chown nobody *.*
then type
chown nobody *

2 - I assume you already know that if the user is trying to login using Frontpage to edit his/her site, they must use the username 'webmaster' and the password will be the admin password for the site admin.

3 - This should allow the user access to his/her Frontpage user web to edit and publish the site.


If this does not work, then you FTP to the site and backup all the contents of the users' web directory, go to the Raq admin and completely delete the site. Next, login as root via SSH and goto the /usr/local/frontpage directory:
type:
cd /usr/local/frontpage

Then, delete any .cnf file that has the URL of the problem site.
example: www.yourdomain.com:80.cnf
This file may already be gone, but if it is still there, you must delete it or you will not be able to re-install FP extensions when you re-add the site.

Now, completely re-add the site to the server via the Raq admin screen, and setup FP extensions/FP user web for the user.

FTP all files back to the site and complete steps 1 & 2.

The user should now be able to access their site via Frontpage - and you can finally go to bed.

Good luck