Microsoft KB Archive/206154

= FP2000: Some FrontPage Components Do Not Work on Disk-Based Webs =

Article ID: 206154

Article Last Modified on 10/1/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q206154



For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 173437.



SYMPTOMS
When you preview a web page that contains a FrontPage component (by clicking the Preview tab at the bottom of the FrontPage window or by clicking Preview In Browser on the Standard toolbar), you may receive the following message:

This page contains elements that may need to be saved or published to display properly.



CAUSE
FrontPage components that interact with a Web server will not function when you create a disk-based FrontPage Web. Browse-time components will only function when you use a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server on which you have installed the FrontPage Server Extensions.



RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, use the appropriate method for your situation.

Method 1: If you have pages with an ASP file extension
Publish Active Server Pages on one of the following server configurations:
 * Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 95.
 * Peer Web Services for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.
 * Microsoft Internet Information Server for Windows NT 4 Server.
 * Microsoft Internet Information Server for Windows 2000.

Method 2: If you are using browse-time components
You can enable FrontPage browse-time components by publishing your disk-based Web to an HTTP server.

For additional information about publishing a FrontPage Web, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

198523 FP2000: How to Publish a FrontPage Web



MORE INFORMATION
Following is a list of browse-time components:

Active Server Pages (ASP)

Discussion Form Handler

Database Results Wizard (creates ASP pages)

Hit Counter

Registration Form Handler

Save Results Form Handler

Dynamic Table of Contents

Search Form

Determining Whether You Are Using a Disk-based Web or Server-based Web
To determine whether you have a disk-based Web or a server-based Web, open your Web in FrontPage and look at the title bar. If the title of your Web contains a drive letter and one or more backslashes, similar to the following, you have a disk-based web:

c:\myweb

If the title of your Web contains "http" and forward slashes, similar to the following, you have a server-based web:

http://myweb

NOTE: The alert described in the summary section will always be shown if you are looking at the Preview tab, regardless of whether or not the web is on a web server.

Additional query words: dbw front page

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB206154

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