Microsoft KB Archive/194284

= FP98: Cannot Use Search Component With Active Server Pages =

Article ID: 194284

Article Last Modified on 6/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q194284



For a Microsoft FrontPage 2002 version of this article, see 292629.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 205540.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 183046.



SYMPTOMS
When you click the Search button on an Active Server Page (ASP), the results of your search are returned, but the ASP script on your page does not run. In some cases, you receive the following error message in your Web browser:

FrontPage Error.

User: please report details to this site's webmaster.

Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more details.

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the Address box in Internet Explorer resembles this

http://%3Cmyserver%3E/%3Cmyfile%3E.asp/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/%3Cmyfile%3E.asp.

where is the location of your Web and is the name of the file you are previewing.



CAUSE
You cannot use the Search Form on an Active Server Page.

When an ASP page is requested on a server, Asp.dll parses it. It finds any script specified to run on the server, runs it, and displays the results.

When you conduct a search using the Search Form, Shtml.dll parses the search page and the results of the search are expanded into the search file and displayed in the browser.

When a search is performed using the Search Form on an ASP page, Shtml.dll cannot parse the file because Asp.dll is already parsing it. Because Shtml.dll fails, it outputs the message described in the "Symptoms" section.

When using Microsoft Index Server, the Search Form does not use Shtml.dll. Instead, the action for the form points to the .idq file associated with the file.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods:

Method 1: Install Microsoft Index Server
Install Microsoft Index Server on the Web server hosting your Web. For more information about how to obtain and install Microsoft Index Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951563.aspx

For additional information about how to use Index Server with FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194075 FP98: How to Use FrontPage with Microsoft Index Server on IIS 3.0

Method 2: Use .htm or .html Instead Of .asp Pages With the Search Form
Do not use Active Server Pages with the Search Form. Use .htm or .html pages only.



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

Additional query words: run time search index

Keywords: kbprb KB194284

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