KB189875 - FP98: File Hyperlinks Have Beginning Slash, Appear Broken

Article ID: 189875

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2002

Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q189875

SYMPTOMS

Valid hyperlinks to files are shown as broken in Hyperlink Status view in FrontPage Explorer. In addition, you may see a slash (/) inserted at the beginning of a file hyperlink in either Hyperlink Status view or Hyperlinks view, similar to this:

/D:/myfolder/myfile.exe

This behavior appears if your Web is disk-based.

CAUSE

FrontPage Explorer does not remove the slash from the beginning of the hyperlink before it verifies the hyperlink in a disk-based Web. Therefore, the hyperlink appears broken even though the hyperlink is correct.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, import the page or the entire Web into a server- based Web.

For additional information about creating server-based Webs with Microsoft FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

166356 FP: How to Create a New Web in Microsoft FrontPage

For more information about importing files or Webs, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text

import file

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Import File To FrontPage Web dialog box" topic.

For more information about using the Import Web Wizard to import a remote web to your local computer, click the Index tab in Microsoft FrontPage Help, type the following text

Import Web

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Import Web Wizard" topic.

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