on the first day that i set up a new domain i can publish to the web site without a problem using FrontPage. however once the 'stats' directory from Webalizer is created on the second day, i can no longer publish using FP. does anyone know how to fix this?

Well, it has something to do with .htaccess. FP uses it for some weird reason and the stats thing altered the .htaccess.

Don't know what to do about it though, but I'm sure someone will...

Hi Netastic,
Frontpage doesn't like anything that isn't MS but I enjoy using FP to save time on some jobs and clear up the html later. When you use FP with anything else (scripts, etc) it seems to corrupt the FP extensions. Have your webhoster reset the extensions after you use the Webalizer then try it again (FP). I can run some FP and CGI together, but it is always trial and error. If you are not comfortable with another html program yet and don't need the FP extras, you can build in FP and upload in FTP. Good luck.

so basically i have to uninstall and then reinstall FP every time i need to publish w/ FP?

Nah, It should only take one time. Maybe every once in a while you would need the extensions reset. If you are talking about uninstall/install FP, no, I'm only talking about the extesions that are set by the server.
1. Set up your webalizer
2. Have webhoster reset the FP extensions
3. Upload your files through FP
4. Upload changes to your files through FP
5. Upload changes to your files through FP
6. Etc...
27. If at anytime you have problems uploading your changes through FP, have webhoster resset extensions.
Warning, if you use FTP program it might mess up the FP extensions and they will need to be reset.
This is only a guess, as I don't have all of the info about your problem, so good luck

I like to tweek a lot and thus don't like to publish with FP. I have found that designing with FP locally and then uploading the files separately works well for me (just like historian mentioned). I don't mind the extra steps.
Gary

My clients still cannot publish their site using Frontpage 2000. I've reset the extensions and it worked, until the next day. I can't be resetting the extensions each day and I've already lost 1 client because of it. Anyone know anything else I could try?

Thanks.

Here is the error message:

Server Error: Cannot change permissions on file "/home/sites/site11/web/stats/index.html".

Go to my site: http://raqzone.com
This is where I just place all my little instructions on doing assorted tasks for my raq...

It has the stuff how to fix the webalizer problem.

Thanks,
Brandon

Cool site... Maybe you can add something related with apache updates etc... :)

Alright I have to resurrect this thread. I am having the same problem and it is becoming to be a big issue for my clients. When I go to raqzone.com I get the default cobalt welcome page. Does ANYONE have the information for this fix or where I can get it?? I tried to contact brandonk but got no response.

That's really strange... wonder what happened to RaqZone... :confused:

I found this in the Cobalt archives:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2000-December/003239.html

If that doesn't help, you might also try a search for Webalize and FrontPage (click here (http://list.cobalt.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=score&words=webalizer+frontpage)).

Have you checked the ownership of the /stats directory and files after Webalizer runs? Chances are that it is not "nobody" as FrontPage extensions require. You may need to modify the cron script that runs Webalizer and add something like this:
chown -R nobody /home/sites/site11/web/stats/

drwxrwsr-x 3 nobody site25 1024 Apr 17 14:07 stats

Looks like permissions are set right to me...?

<edit>Well, we'll see if the permissions stay right after the script runs tonight...</edit>

I put the site back up...sorry, I had a hard drive fail on me and I never reuploaded the site.

But it's up, follow those instructions and you'll get it.