Web Site Cannot Be Accessed Using Web Folders.

10/05/2002

Problem: Web Site Cannot Be Accessed Using Web Folders.

Solution:

Sometimes a customer is not able to publish with FrontPage through http, but only with ftp. To solve this issue, do these steps :

Go into the web interface and go to the Site Management page of the particular site.
Disable FrontPage for all users if enabled for them.
Click on Site Settings and disable FrontPage.
Telnet (or ssh) into the machine as admin and su - to root. cd to the web directory of the site in question.
If there are any files which names start with _vti, or if there is a directory called _private, delete them. Any subdirectory will also need to be checked. Here is a command you can execute from the site# directory to search for and delete all frontpage extention files:
find ./ -name _vti* | xargs rm -rf find ./ -name _private | xargs rm -rf
cd to /usr/local/frontpage. If there is a file called www. :80.cnf, delete it too.
In the webinterface, enable FrontPage again.

Also Ensure all files in the /web directory are owned by the user nobody and have the sitexx group where xx is the site number of the site.

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