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Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server extension

Scott F K Hooper
1/6/2006 12:51:03 PM

visual studio .net general:

I have VS2005 installed on my XP Pro SP2 workstation and am trying to create
a new web on my 2003 Server. On the VS Start Page I select Create:Web Site,
then in the New Web Site dialog I select ASP.NET Web Site, HTTP as the
location type, VB as the laguage and finally I key the location as
"http://<servername>/DOTNET2_Test", where <serverName> is appropriately
substituted with the name of our 2003 Server domain controller. The error I
get back upon clicking OK, after about 5-10 seconds of activity on the server
with the "creating..." dialog on the workstation, is "Unable to create the
Web 'http://<servername>/DOTNET2_Test'. The Web server does not appear to
have the FrontPage server extensions installed.

Now then, on the server the FrontPage 2002 server extensions are most
definately installed as checked in Add/Remove Programs->Windows Setup. Using
IIS6 on the server the empty web DOTNET2_Test also exists, mapped to a folder
of same name off the webroot$ location. I read somewhere that I should be
able to right-click the web in IIS6 and see FP2002 options in All Tasks, but
all I see is "Save Configuration to a File". Sounds like the server
extensions aren't installed doesn't it? But You can see the tick box there in
Windows Setup stating the contrary. In the properties for the Web I have set
the ASP.NET version to 2.0.50727

I have been through the How To at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx to setup remote
debugging so I'm sure it's not a firewall issue. I have even tried lowering
the firewall on both machines to be sure. Incidentally, remote debugging
works fine with VS2003/.NET1.1 between these two PC's. Sometime ago I had
quite a lot of hassle getting that going, but it turned out to be a DCOM
security issue - easily fixed when you know how :)

So that's where I'm at. I have tried providing VS2005 with a non-existent
web name on the same remote server in hope that it would create it, but I get
the same error referencing FrontPage.

TIA to anybody who can shed any light for me
SFK

RE: Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server extension

Scott F K Hooper
1/6/2006 1:05:01 PM

Incidentally, I forgot to mention that I have setup the VS 2005 Remote
Debugger on the server.

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RE: Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server extension

Bluerocket
1/19/2006 3:37:05 PM

hey scott, did you have any luck with the "The Web server does not appear to
have the FrontPage server extensions installed" problem? i have the same
issue and have just installed the remote debugger and frontpage server

RE: Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server exten

Bob C.
4/11/2006 10:48:02 AM

Same problem here... Any help?

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Re: Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server exten

Gerry Hickman
4/19/2006 11:03:43 PM

Hi,

I can't see the rest of the thread; if you explain the exact steps you
used to install and configure the server extensions and the exact
versions of all systems/software you are using and the exact problem and
errors you see, I'll try to help.

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Re: Creating remote web sites with VS2005 - Frontpage server exten

Bob C.
4/23/2006 11:42:02 AM

In my case, we are using SPPS, and my sysadmin didn't install FPSE on the
server. He was worried that it would mess up SPPS, but I read that this is
only an issue if you try to apply the FPSE to an SPPS site.

Since I'd be applying it to my own non-spps site, this won't be an issue and
all sould be well:)

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