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• How can I remove the FrontPage extensions from my virtual server?
• I am having problems with feedback forms using FrontPage. Do you have a list of known bug fixes?
• I attempted to publish a simple FrontPage subweb to my server but FrontPage came back with the following error. "Server error: FrontPage Security Violation". What can I do to correct this?
• I get an error message when I save a page using FrontPage
• How much disk space does an installation of the FrontPage extensions use on a virtual server?
• Will Web sites created with FrontPage 2000 run on Web servers running the FrontPage2002 Server Extensions?
• What are the FrontPage Server Extensions?

Q: How can I remove the FrontPage extensions from my virtual server?
A: To remove the FrontPage extensions from your virtual server, Telnet to your virtual server and type the following at the command prompt:
% fpnuke
This command removes the FrontPage core extension files, as well as all of the FrontPage configuration directories (the "_" directories). Note that once you remove the FrontPage extensions, any pages on your site that use FrontPage components will no longer function.

Q: I am having problems with feedback forms using FrontPage. Do you have a list of known bug fixes?
A: RSH Web Services technical support has found several fixes for problems with feedback forms:
1) The error message reads : Your FrontPage Server Extentions have not been configured to send e-mail. Please direct your system administrator or Internet service provider to follow the instructions at "Setting Up Your E-mail Transport" in the SERKenuadmin.htm file on the Frontpage CD-ROM.
2) Solution: Anytime this issue comes up, add the following to:
~/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/frontpage.cnf
SendmailCommand:/bin/sendmail %r
This will solve the problem.

Q: I attempted to publish a simple FrontPage subweb to my server but FrontPage came back with the following error. "Server error: FrontPage Security Violation". What can I do to correct this?
A: Due to limitations of the FrontPage extensions in the UNIX environment, if you wish to publish via FrontPage, you must do so either by using the FTP protocol or by creating the page while connected “on-line” and saving the page in the FrontPage Editor, rather then publishing a page created on your local Web to your virtual server. If you upload a FrontPage Web via the FTP method, the FrontPage extensions will be bypassed, however, and your FrontPage components will not function correctly. You can side-step this problem by first uploading your FrontPage Web via FTP and then connecting to the FrontPage Web online via the FrontPage explorer and “save” the files, which will then republish the pages and include any necessary FrontPage extension settings that are needed.

Q: I get an error message when I save a page using FrontPage.
A: On UNIX servers, the following errors occur when you save the page:
"The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or web server administrator to make sure the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific information, click Details."
Details shows:
500 Internal Server Error
The UNIX server reports the following in its error log:
Premature end of script headers:
/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/apache-fp/_vti_bin/fpexe
Cause
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FrontPage for Windows.
This problem occurs when you have includes within your shared borders. FrontPage will occasionally double-parse a document, transferring information between the first and second parse. Include bots must identify their parent document, but because shared borders act as temporary parent documents, the communication may fail between parses.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, delete the page in the Web that has the shared border with the include in either the Table of Contents or Form with Validation, and then recalculate hyperlinks.
You can put the Table of Contents or Form with Validation on a page that does not have a shared border with an include in it or remove the include from the shared borders.

Q: How much disk space does an installation of the FrontPage extensions use on a virtual server?
A: If a user decides to install the FrontPage extensions from Microsoft, they will take up 11.5MB of disk space.

Q: Will Web sites created with FrontPage 2000 run on Web servers running the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions?
A: Yes, basic Web sites created with FrontPage 2000 will run without problems on FrontPage 2002 extended Webs.
The following features require the FrontPage Server Extensions:
  Database Results Wizard
  Send To Database Form Handler
  Nested Sub webs
  Lightweight Source Control (Document Check-in /Check-out without VSS)
  Categories Component
  StyleSheet links to multiple files or ASP files
In addition, the following components require at least an earlier version of the FrontPage Server Extensions:
  Confirmation Field
  Discussion Form Handler
  FrontPage created server-side Image Maps
  Hit Counter
  Registration Form Handler
  Save Results Form Handler
  Search Form

Q: What are the FrontPage Server Extensions?
A: The Server Extensions for the Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool are a set of server-side applications that do the following:
1) Allow multiple users simultaneously collaborate on the same Web site
2) Allow users to author using FrontPage directly against a Web server
3) Enable Microsoft Office applications to save directly to a Web server
Let users include the following components in FrontPage on their sites: forms handler component, discussion component, full text search component and hit counter component
This prepackaged functionality lets users incorporate these advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs typically required. FrontPage is the only Web site creation and management tool that offers all of these features.