Article ID: 194057
Article Last Modified on 10/3/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q194057
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see
153041.
SYMPTOMS
In FrontPage Explorer, when you open an internal Web after a proxy
server has been defined, the following error message may appear:
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
When a proxy server is designated in the FrontPage Explorer, the
ability to access internal host names is unavailable, unless one of
the following conditions is true:
- The internal host names are specified in the List of Hosts without
Proxy (on the Tools menu, click Proxies).
-or-
- The IP address of the Web Server is specified in the Open Web
dialog box.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
Wild card characters (* or ?) can not be used to specify host IP
addresses in the Hosts Without Proxy list.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
- Open FrontPage Explorer.
- On the Tools menu, click Proxies.
- Under "List of Hosts without Proxy," list all internal host names
that you want to be accessed inside the proxy.
NOTE: When you specify multiple host names to be used without a proxy,
use commas to separate the names as in the following example:
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