Hello, I revisit this topic since I haven't solved yet.
Summary of Symptoms I'm using a provider hosting on Apache with FrontPage Extensions and Windows IIS ASP support. For a long time, I publish my web that has an .asp home page. I have been naming it default.asp . I added the default.asp filename on the .htaccess file to have the name allowed as a default document, I and have been publishing it fine with FP 2000. After upgrading to FP 2002, I experience a problem. Frontpage 2002 renames any home page filename to index.html. This causes my ASP code to not execute. It seems FP 2002 determines allowed default filenames differently than FP2000. FP 2000 worked with the .htaccess file, but it seems FP 2002 doesn't. Troubleshooting After, going through the Microsoft Partner Newgroup and escalating to Professional support they request that I send them a copy of the apache.conf file I answered the following, what do you think? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- "1. I have looked up some of the Apache documentation http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ and other sources and it points to a DirectoryIndex directive in the httpd.conf file, which is under .../apache/conf/ directory. I have searched and seen no mention of an apache.conf. Are you sure it is apache.conf or is it httpd.conf we want to look at before I email my provider? 2. An AllowOverride directive exists in the "main configuration files" to allow each web to configure using the DirectoryIndex directive in its own .htaccess file. This is the way my hosting provider has it setup and it was working with FP 2000. I only added my default.asp home page to the DirectoryIndex directive and the filename was allowed an included in the default document search order. Please tell me if you know definitely: Is FP 2002 not looking at the .htaccess FP 2000 did? Or do you not know exactly? Is this a bug or a "feature" no longer supported? We need to know if this behavior is "by design" or there is something wrong. 3. You said "The server will rename any published default page to the first page listed in apache.conf, so you may want to add default.asp to the top of that list." This could not possibly be the case. It cannot rename just ANY published page to the first page in config file. If it did that a web could not use index.asp, index.aspx, or index.htm. Frontpage looks at a list of allowed filenames for the home page you are using. Only if your selected name is not in the list will it rename it. It seems to me that the problem in my case is a combination of two things. 1. My hosting provider does not have default.asp in the allowed documents in the DirectoryIndex directive on httpd.conf. However, they have set AllowOverride so I can add default.asp on the DirectoryIndex dircetive on my .htaccess file. This is the correct way to do it and it did work fine with FP2000. 2. FP2002 is not looking at the .htaccess file like FP2000 did. So, is it httpd.conf we want? Do you know is FP2002 now doesn't look at .htaccess like FP2000? " ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Is it httpd.conf? Does apache.conf exist? What do you think of my appraisal of the situation? Thanks for the help. _______________________________________________ Apache-FP mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.joshie.com/mailman/listinfo/apache-fp Donations: http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PT5LZITM9L227
