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Shared Border Files Overwritten - 1/10/2003 10:45:57
We' re hosting sites on a server running NT4 and release 1.2 of the FP2000 extensions. Out of the blue, files defining a shared border are being stripped of their code whenever the site is opened in the FrontPage client tool. A shared-border file that' s been running perfectly well since August 8 is reduced to a default shell whenever we restore and re-install it.
The HEAD section is identical before and
after:
<head>
<meta name=" GENERATOR" content=" Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" >
<meta name=" ProgId" content=" FrontPage.Editor.Document" >
<title>New Page 1</title>
<base target=" contents" >
<meta name=" Microsoft Border" content=" t, default" >
</head>
The problem is not site-specific. I copied the same files to my test site where they' re not connected to anything. Same result: the act of opening the site seems to sniff out the border id and over-write the file.
What could have caused this universal change and how can it be undone?
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RE: Shared Border Files Overwritten - 1/10/2003 13:00:30
Oops! I found some borders on other sites which are working just fine. It looks like this is a site-level configuration problem and shouldn' t be in the Servers forum.
Never mind.
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RE: Shared Border Files Overwritten - 1/13/2003 9:04:28
Not knowing anything about shared borders, I accepted the client' s word that a certain file in the site root was the one which defined the border. Every time we restored it to the site, its contents were wiped out.
After some digging, I discovered that the true source of the border definition was _borders/top.htm. What I had been working with was a backup file created by the client by copying and pasting from the Page Source for one of the pages using the shared border.
The shared border was being applied to new files. A new author didn' t care much for the border and deleted its elements from the new page he was creating, not realizing that that change would be applied to _borders/top.htm and extended from there to all files sharing the border. Every time we restored the backup file and opened the site, the now gutted _borders/top.htm would overwrite the backup.
We were able to restore an old copy of _borders/top.htm then re-apply it
throughout the site.
Ya learn sumthin' every day...
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