Microsoft KB Archive/185544

= Error Creating Subweb Using 100+ Characters in Web Name =

Article ID: 185544

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q185544



SYMPTOMS
When you create a subweb in Microsoft FrontPage and use more than 100 characters in the Web name, the following error messages appear:

FrontPage 98
The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet

service provider or web server administrator to make sure that the

server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific

information click Details.

When you click Details, you see the following information:

404 Not Found

404 Not Found

/subwebnameauthor.exe was not found on this server.

FrontPage 97
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).

The above error messages are repeated several times, depending on what type of subweb is being created.

On the server running FrontPage Personal Web Server, when the Web server is stopped and restarted, the following error message appears:

Syntax error on line  of c:/frontpage webs/server/conf/srm.conf

A second message then appears:

Unknown keyword subwebname/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/.

The Web server will not start.



CAUSE
When a subweb is created, WinScriptAliases are created for that subweb. If the subweb name is longer than 100 characters, the FrontPage Personal Web Server is unable to parse the WinScriptAliases in the Srm.cnf file.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do the following:


 * 1) Manually edit the file C:\FrontPage Webs\Server\conf\Srm.cnf and remove the three WinScriptAlias entries that refer to the 100-plus character subweb.
 * 2) Manually edit the file C:\FrontPage Webs\Content\_vti_pvt\Services.cnf and delete the line containing \subweb.

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