FP97: HTTP 404 Error When Using Web Publishing Wizard
Article ID: 159243
Article Last Modified on 6/12/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q159243
SUMMARY
When you use the Publish FrontPage Web command in FrontPage 97, you
may receive the following error when you post to a Web server that
doesn't have FrontPage Server Extensions installed:
The server may not have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed,
or the server may be misconfigured, or you may have specified an
invalid proxy server, or the web you are accessing may have been
deleted. HTTP error 404
CAUSE
While the Web Publishing Wizard can create subdirectories when you
post files to an established directory on a destination server, it
cannot create the Web directory it is posting to. The Web Publishing
Wizard is designed only to post files to an existing directory.
WORKAROUND
To avoid this error message, select the "Add to an existing FrontPage
Web" check box, and verify that the directory listed in the
Destination FrontPage Web box exists on the destination server.
NOTE: To post Web content to a new directory on the destination
server, connect to the server (using some method other than the
wizard) and create the new directory.
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