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FP: HTTP Code 501 Error Opening, Creating Web

Article ID: 143225

Article Last Modified on 11/13/2003

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For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 205700.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194061.

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When you try to open or create a Web you get an "HTTP error 501" error message.

FrontPage cannot properly communicate with the server extensions.

To resolve this error, follow these steps:

Verify that you can browse to the server using your Web browser.
Run the Server Administrator to verify that the server extensions are installed. If they are not installed, install the server extensions.
Check the Error.log file for out-of-memory errors and verify the amount of physical and virtual memory available. Make sure that you are using at least a 20 (mebabyte) MB permanent swap file. You should have at least 16 MB of random access memory (RAM).

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

169529 FP97: How to Install FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS 3.0

167931 How to Install FrontPage Server Extensions for MSPWS

161845 FP97: How to Upgrade the FrontPage Server Extensions

156842 How to Install FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS

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