Hello,

I've been running the FP98 and then 2K extensions since as long back as I can remember, and surprisingly I've never had major problems with them. Until now.

For some reason, I simply cannot get the extensions to work on a domain. They still work on all of the existing domains, and they even work if I install it on a fresh new domain, but when I install them on this one account, it always fails.

When I try to open the domain in my copy of FP98, I get this error:

"The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet server provider or web server administrator to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific information, click Details". Of course I click Details, and it is a blank screen.

Problem is, it is leaving absolutely NO ERROR in my logs. In fact, it prints in the access_log like it was a success, like it would when I login to the other domains.

I even completely removed all of the extensions on the account and removed their public_html and recreated it. Then I install them, and I keep getting the same problem.

Has anyone ever heard of this problem before, or experienced it? It gives absolutely no errors when installing the extensions on the account, nor in the logs, but FrontPage just won't open the web.

And of course I checked over all of the permissions. Everything is as it should be.

The real bother to this is that after installing it on the one domain that won't open in FrontPage, I can then successfully install it on another domain that WILL open it in FrontPage. I have a feeling somewhere there is a file that is broken and it isn't being fixed in the extension uninstall/install operation.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Something is definitely wrong. I even moved their /home/user directory to a different server and setup the extensions on that server, and I still have the same problem.

Of course I removed all of their _* directories before reinstalling the FP2K extensions, and their www.domain:80.cnf is exactly like the other .cnf files which are on working domains.

Any ideas?

It seemed like a permission problem to me, but then you said you checked the permissions. I just remember having similar problem and I had to modify some permissions in the user's document and home directory.

Are you sure that you're allowing the .htaccess files in frontpage to override the default settings with the "allow override"?

Thanks for the reply. It turns out that the rewrite rules in the vhost for this account was different than the other accounts, which I overlooked. And since the httpd.conf gets automatically generated for each machine the same way, the account wouldn't work on either machine.

You're lucky. I can't even figure out how to get FrontPage 2000 (or 2002) server extensions installed. I always compile Apache manually with my modules and the patch doesn't seem do anything. I guess if I could have some help with this I'd greatly appreciate it, as I think we're in the same ballpark.

I dunno about FP2002, but FP2K can be installed with adding their module into Apache. You definitely want to use the web server program "apache" and not "apache-fp".

This way the extensions aren't tied to Apache.

Done that, installed the patch, added it to my httpd.conf file, and set up a test account, but can't log in, it's so weird.