The provider supports ASP. Remember, my site has been
working for a long time. I don't know how they configure the processing of ASP
pages from the Apache server.
I need to find out what config file or settings FrontPage
checks for "allowed default document filenames" in order to have my provider
check what they have configured. The MS support newsgroup side-stepped the
question, so I'll have to press them for an answer.
Now, I feel the cause of the problem might be FP 2002.
Since, my provider tested uploading a default.asp page to my Web and they didn’t
get an error or the page renamed. They used FP 2000, which is also what I used
until recently. Although, they uploaded only a single page, while my Web has a
around a dozen with a FP implemented navigation structure. So I'll have to set
up some test environment with FP 2000 and see what happens.
Thanks for the help.
One thing that you need to check is wither the
apache server your ISP is using, does it accept .ASP pages? Most apache
servers don't. The default for an apache server is to make index.html
and index.htm the default unless your provider knows how to change this.
If they don't support .asp files, they may support .php.......
----- Original Message -----
Newsgroups:
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:07
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Subject: Re: [Apache-FP] Re: Allowed
default documents on Apache
On Oct 10, 2003, at 3:47 PM, Iván Torres wrote:
Josh
I haven't seen anything in FP that alters this
behavior - renaming the home
page according to the server. It would be
a great enhancement, allow just
publishing the file as is and not check
for "allowed" default document name.
Below is an article
I found. From reading this I really think it's the DirectoryIndex that is
needed to be altered and the files will upload as you want it to.
-Josh
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Joshua Levitsky, CISSP, MCSE
System
Engineer
AOL Time Warner
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http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010448871033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010553071033
Setting
the Name of a Home Page in FrontPage 2000
Help
Assistance
> Office
2000 > FrontPage
2000
Microsoft
FrontPage® 2000 users may be surprised to see that when FrontPage creates a
new web site, the home page file is sometimes named Index.htm, and at other
times is named Default.htm. Why does FrontPage name this file for you? Can
you name your home page something besides Index or Default?
What is a
home page, exactly?
First,
let's be clear about what a home page is. Some common terms for a home page
are welcome name, start page, and entry page.
To people visiting your
web site, the home page is what appears in their browser when they type the
URL for your site in the form
http://example.microsoft.com.
They don't need to type a trailing slash (/) or a file name at the end of
the URL.
Your web server administrator thinks of a home page as a default document or index page of a web site, because it's the
file that the web server sends to a browser by default. That is, when a
browser requests a URL with no particular file specified (as shown above),
the web server looks for a default document to deliver.
To find the
default document of your web site, the web server uses a list of file names
that it recognizes as default documents. In general, web servers running on
Microsoft Windows® operating systems use Default.htm (and variations such as
Default.html and Default.asp) as the file name for default documents, and
web servers running on Unix operating systems use Index.htm (and Index.html)
as the file name for default documents.
For example, if site visitors
type a simple URL (such as
http://example.microsoft.com/)
to go to your web site and your site is hosted by a Windows-based server,
the server looks for a file called Default.htm in your web and sends it to
the browser. If your site is hosted by a Unix-based server, the server looks
for a file called Index.htm.
Visitors could type http://example.microsoft.com/default.htm
or
http://example.microsoft.com/index.htmto
get the same result, but they would have no way of knowing which file name
to use. Default documents on a web server make it easier for people to get
to your home page.
FrontPage
adapts to a Web server's configuration
Like those who
visit your site, you don't necessarily know details about the web server
that hosts your web site. It would be difficult for you to guess whether to
name your home page Default.htm, Index.htm, or something else that the web
server recognizes as a default document. If you publish your site on a web
server that is running the FrontPage Server Extensions, FrontPage does this
work for you.
Note If
you publish your site on a web server that is not running the FrontPage
Server extensions (using File Transfer Protocol), contact your ISP or server
administrator to find out what file name to use for your home
page.
When you publish a web site from one web server to another --
or from your hard disk to a Web server -- FrontPage renames the home page,
if necessary, to accommodate the server's configuration for default
documents. If FrontPage renames the home page, it also automatically
modifies any hyperlinks that are affected by the name
change.
FrontPage renames the home page on the destination web
server, not in the source location. For example, the home page you publish
to a Windows-based web server is named Default.htm on the server, but may
still be named Index.htm on your hard disk.
When renaming the home
page at publish time, FrontPage renames the home page to match the first
name in the web server's list of default documents. Therefore, you may have
one or more files in your web site with file names that are valid as home
pages, but only the name that appears first in the list is used.
For
example, the list of default documents on your web server might be:
1. Default.htm
2.
Default.html
3. Default.asp
4. Index.htm
5. Index.html
6.
Welcome.htm
The home page in your
web site might be called Welcome.htm, the sixth name in the list. When you
publish your site to this web server, FrontPage renames the home page
Default.htm, the first name in the list. Likewise, you might have a page
called Default.htm and another page called Index.htm. When you publish the
site, FrontPage uses Default.htm as the home
page.
Naming your home page
something besides Default or Index
An advantage to letting
FrontPage generate the file name of your home page is that site visitors can
use a simpler URL than they would use if your home page had a non-standard
name. For example, if the file name of your home page is
MyGreatHomePage.htm, visitors need to typehttp://example.microsoft.com/mygreathomepage.htm
instead of the
simplerhttp://example.microsoft.com
to visit your site.
Furthermore, if you use a non-standard file name
for your home page and someone attempts to visit your site by typing the
simpler URL, they may be able to see a list of files that comprise your web
site, rather than entering your site. This happens because your web site has
no page with a standard file name, such as Default or Index, so the web
server cannot find a default document to send to the browser. Instead, if
your web server allows directory browsing it displays a list of all the
files in your web site, including files that you may not want visitors to
open. If directory browsing is turned off, visitors see an error message
rather than the list of files.
If your web server administrator can
customize the configuration of the web server for you, you may be able to
get a custom name for a home page added to the list of names that the web
server recognizes as default documents. For example, in a small intranet,
the web server administrator might add HRStart.htm to the list of default
documents so that the home page for the Human Resources departmental web
site could be called HRStart.htm instead of Default.htm or Index.htm.
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