I have Office XP, and want to produce web pages from Powerpoint, then
edit the site using Frontpage, and publish it, via FTP, again using
Frontpage.
When I save a file as HTML using Powerpoint or Word, it produces a
file called (say) mywebpage.htm, and a directory called
mywebpage_files. In that directory is a further folder called
vti_cnf.
When I then look at the website in Frontpage, the vti_cnf folder isn't
there (it is there in Explorer). When I publish the site, the vti_cnf
file doesn't go there, and the site doesn't work. If I 'manually' FTP
the folder to the website, it still doesn't work - the browser can't
see it.
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, this is running on Win XP Pro, and publishing to a Unix server
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Clarification of Question by
jeremymiles-ga
on
08 Feb 2003 12:46 PST
Oh, I don't need a search strategy, I just want the answer.
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Request for Question Clarification by
tar_heel_v-ga
on
08 Feb 2003 12:50 PST
does your host support FP extensions? If so, have you activated them?
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Clarification of Question by
jeremymiles-ga
on
08 Feb 2003 12:54 PST
No, I don't think so, and no, I don't think so.
If I have done this (or if I haven't turned them off, will that be the problem?).
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Request for Question Clarification by
cerebrate-ga
on
09 Feb 2003 04:50 PST
Dear jeremymiles-ga,
I've tried to reproduce this problem to come up with an answer for
you; unfortunately, I haven't been able to do so - my attempt, alas,
worked.
Would it be possible for you to go through a case where this fails
step by step?
For reference, the test I did was as follows:
1. Create a new FrontPage web, "TestWeb", on my local machine (Windows
XP/Office XP).
2. Create a simple test PowerPoint presentation using one of the
Microsoft-supplied themes.
3. Save the test presentation into the FrontPage web (using the simple
"Save as web page" option, not the "Publish" option from FrontPage).
4. In FrontPage, select "Recalculate Hyperlinks" to update the web
metainformation to include the PowerPoint presentation. (The vti_cnf
folder doesn't appear for me until I do this.)
5. Create/edit another page in my test web using FrontPage.
6. Publish the resulting FrontPage web to a folder on my test web
server, using FTP through FrontPage. The server in question is
Unix-based and does not support FrontPage extensions.
(No vti_cnf folder is transferred to the server; this is the expected
behaviour.)
7. Test the pages in question.
Thanks,
cerebrate-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
tar_heel_v-ga
on
09 Feb 2003 19:37 PST
Are you publishing your page using FTP or using FrontPage's publishing
wizard? Also, you will need a host that supports FP extensions if you
are using the FP publishing wizard.
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Clarification of Question by
jeremymiles-ga
on
13 Feb 2003 12:18 PST
Using either FTP or the FrontPage wizard it doesn't work. With FPage
the directory doesn't get copied, with FTP it does, but is ignored.
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Clarification of Question by
jeremymiles-ga
on
13 Feb 2003 12:30 PST
Thanks for the help cerebrate-ga.
The pages work locally, and they seem to work on one webserver that I
use, however, they don't work on the other (unfortunately, it's my
wife's pages that don't work :( ).
It is running Apache 1.3.9 webserver. There is an option in Frontpage
which says "Frontpage extensions on" and this is deselected.
Thansk again,
jeremymiles-ga
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