Microsoft KB Archive/238881

= Error Creating Web Application Using Visual InterDev =

Article ID: 238881

Article Last Modified on 2/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q238881



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to create a new project with Visual InterDev, the following error message may occur:

Cannot create a disk-based Web application in 'C:\WINNT\Profiles\username\Personal\Visual Studio Projects\Projectname\Projectname_Local'. Config File "": value "Global FrontPageRoot" not found.

Note: The path in the error message may vary due to your configuration.



CAUSE
Visual InterDev checks the Frontpg.ini file for the FrontPageRoot directive. If the directive is not there, the project is not created and the error message occurs.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, do the following:  Click Start, and then click Run. Type "Frontpg.ini" (without the quotation marks) in the Open: dialog box and click OK. (This opens the Frontpg.ini file in Notepad.)

Note: If there is no Frontpg.ini file on the computer, create a text file with this name and save it to the Winnt folder. Make sure that the file looks similar to the following:

[FrontPage 3.0] FrontPageRoot=d:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage FrontPageLangID=0x0409 UILangAbbrev=enu NoAbsoluteFileResults=1 NoServerFileResults=1 BotCacheDir=d:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\BotCache CheckedHostName=treys HostOverride=

 If the FrontPageRoot entry is missing, add the following in the [FrontPage 3.0] section:

FrontPageRoot=

You do not need to add a value. Save the file.</ol>

You should now be able to create a project.