FP97: Some WebBot Components Don't Work on Disk-Based Web
Article ID: 160227
Article Last Modified on 8/10/2001
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Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q160227
SUMMARY
The FrontPage WebBot components that interact with your Web browser will
not function when the FrontPage web is disk-based. The browse-time
WebBot components will only function through an HTTP server.
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The WebBot browse-time components are
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In addition, the Internet Database Connector runs only when it is served
on a Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 97, Windows NT Peer Web
Services for NT 4.0 Workstation, and Microsoft Internet Information
Server for NT Server.
A disk-based Web can be identified in the title bar of the FrontPage
Explorer when you view the Web. A disk-based Web will have a drive
letter and backslashes within parenthesis, as in the following example:
(c:\myweb)
A server-based Web will have "http:" and forward slashes within
parenthesis, as in the following example:
(http://myweb)
If you want to enable the WebBot browse-time components, copy your disk-
based Web to an HTTP server. FrontPage 97 with Bonus pack comes with two
Web servers to choose from: the FrontPage Personal Web Server and the
Microsoft Personal Web Server.
Also, note that when you create a large disk-based Web, the status bar in
FrontPage Explorer may display the "updating text indices" message.
However, this information is misleading, because there are no indices on
a disk-based Web.