FP: New Disk-Based Web Times Out While Trying to Connect
Article ID: 169089
Article Last Modified on 10/7/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q169089
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see
194673.
SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to create a new disk-based Web, you receive one of
the following error messages:
FrontPage 97 for Windows
Timed out while trying to connect to a server at 'C' on port 80.
FrontPage for Windows 1.1
Unable to connect to a server at 'C' on port 0 (socket code 10049).
CAUSE
This problem occurs if you type a path using the forward slash, such
as "c:/webs" (without the quotation marks) in the "Choose a title for your
FrontPage Web" dialog box. When the server attempts to resolve
the address, it attempts to resolve the folder on the c:\ drive using
an IP address.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, in the "Choose a title for your FrontPage Web"
dialog box, use a backslash and type the path as follows:
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
Keywords: kbprb kbusage KB169089