DrPhyto
Sun Mar 13 14:35:01 CST 2005
Dear Ronx;
Thanks for the suggestion, but it adds a complexity to maintanance (for
instance, I have other sub-webs, so I couldn't ever tell fp to "publish
sub-webs" by this solution. I would like to find out why this is happening,
and also, if a later version of fp than 2000 has solved the problem.
"Ronx" wrote:
> If your host supports subwebs -
> If the folder containing your files only contains multinedia files,
> convert it to a subweb (right-click->Convert to web).
> Open your online site and do the same thing - create the folder and
> convert to web.
> Then use an FTP client to upload the mulimedia files. Only upload the
> files themselves, do not upload any folders, and do not touch any
> folders with names beginning with _vti_.
>
> Never open this subweb in FrontPage (using FTP may break the
> extensions in the subweb, but the main web will be OK), and never use
> FrontPage to publish it.
> If you only upload files, you will be able to use FP hyperlink
> dialogue to create links to the files on your pages in the local web.
> --
> Ron Symonds
> Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
> "Dr. Phyto" <Dr. Phyto@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:11948559-B870-4094-9261-C42CC3B99D94@microsoft.com...
> >I tried to import multimedia files into FP2000, but get a vague
> >message:
> > "An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if
> > authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for
> > this
> > server's site. WebMasters - please see the server's system log for
> > more
> > details."
> >
> > The microsoft kb has the error message, but their example doesn't
> > cover my
> > situation. There article:
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838018
> >
> > Anyway, so I used windows explorer and made a folder in my disk
> > based web,
> > put the multimedia files into it, then recalculated hyperlinks.
> > frontpage
> > then noticed the files, and so I built links to the files. Problem
> > is, now
> > the disk based web won't publish up to the server. I get "the server
> > timed
> > out" after a couple minutes. My server "Accuwebhosting.com" says
> > they can
> > publish a test page just fine, and so, I am left without a way to
> > proceed. I
> > am stuck. Can someone please help?
> >
> > Charles
>
>
>