Microsoft KB Archive/193965

= FP98: Invalid Page URL Error Saving Page in FrontPage Editor =

Article ID: 193965

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q193965



For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 181227.



SYMPTOMS
When you save your page in FrontPage Editor, you may receive the following error message:

"http://localhost/myweb/.htm" is not a valid page URL for the current web. Do you want to save the page with this URL?

where ".htm" is the file name of your file. The error may be different depending on the location of your web.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs if you save a file with an extension that is not recognized by FrontPage as a text or HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file format.

FrontPage recognizes the following extensions as text or HTML file formats:
 * htm
 * html
 * shtm
 * shtml
 * htx
 * asp



RESOLUTION
Save your page by using one of the extensions listed in the "Cause" section of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
Web servers recognize file types by their extension. If the server does not recognize the extension, it may not serve the file correctly or the Web browser may interpret it incorrectly.

If you save a file with an extension other than one of those listed in the "Cause" section of this article, FrontPage will not recognize it as an HTML document. Features, such as themes, shared borders, hyperlink verification, and spelling, will not be applied to the document if it is not recognized as HTML.

Additional query words: 98 file types

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB193965

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