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xx75vulcan -> Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 12:49:18)

Howdy!

I just recently purchased Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Web Server.
I've installed both, seperately on different occasions, and neither one will act as a web server!?

I currently have Windows 2003 Web Server Edition installed because I believe it's what's supposed to be used to host websites.

I have IIS 6.0 Installed and running, WWW service is running. Problem is, that all the websites I've created appear to be acting as if they're disk-based webs. I don't know why. I see them inside of IIS.

When using Frontpage, it says there's no server running. How is that so? I'm using 2003 Web Server running as the OS.

Is there something I didn't do during install? A feature not turned on?

I can get to the websites from a web-browser just fine. but I can't get any access databases to run. I also can not connect to the server through Frontpage on a remote computer to edit the website. (I can only assume because it's disk-based).

Any Ideas?



rdouglass -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 13:06:12)

Have you turned on ASP? It is not active by default.



xx75vulcan -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 13:17:38)

Yeah, I turned ASP on (installed it) from the Control Pannel's Add/remove windows components.

Actually, I CAN get MS Access databases to work, only if I set the "fpdb" folder that Frontpage creates to allow annonymous users to "read" and "write" to the folder. (a classic indication of a disk-based-web.)

I really want the server to work like any regular web server. I had previously run IIS from a Windows XP box, and was able to run a disk-based web, and run a website from there.

I purchased Windows 2003 Web Server so I could run more than one website... But it appears that the sites are still disk-based?




rdouglass -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 13:27:48)

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annonymous users to "read" and "write"


Anonymous users *do* need to be able to read and write but they normally use the IUSR_machinename account to do it.

Windows 2003 server does include everything you need to run a web server. How are you getting to those pages? Are you using standard http:// format?

Do you have a URL by chance?




xx75vulcan -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 14:24:17)

URL is : http://www.lizzybell.com

YEah, I know annonymous users need access to the folder, but then there's still the delema of not being able to access the server from Frontpage via any machine other than the actual server machine.

For example, here at work, I can use Frontpage to "Open Site" and edit any portion of my company website, either from my work's network, or I can go home, (or anywhere there's an internet connection) and access the server through Frontpage to edit the site. I can't do that to my web that is set up on my Server 2003 machine that's hosting www.lizzybell.com




rdouglass -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 15:04:31)

In IIS Manager, when you select properties of a web site, do you have the Server Extensions tab available and if so can you go into settings and confirm Authoring is enabled?



xx75vulcan -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 18:58:51)

ok, I double checked, and the Server Extensions tab WAS available.

However, it says it was not configured. So I followed the commands to configure it: right click website in IIS, and click configure Frontpage Server Extensions 2002. It brought up an IE window, verified that it would extend the Extensions to my website, and I clicked OK, and it said: Plesae wait while your changes are processed...And it sat there for over an hour not doing anything.

Now when I go back into IIS, and click properties for my website, the Frontpage Server 2002 Tab is GONE!

What now?



rdouglass -> RE: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/18/2006 22:22:46)

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the Frontpage Server 2002 Tab is GONE!


Reinstall the extensions or right-click on the web and it's under "All Tasks..."



xx75vulcan -> SOLVED: Windows Server 20003 Not acting as a server (5/31/2006 19:31:12)

Howdy!

Thanks again for your help!

I was about to consider formatting the machine and starting over. But before I did, I wanted to give it one more shot.

See when I set up my webs, in created folders on the server, went into IIS and pointed to those servers and told it to make it a site.

This time, I went straight into IIS, and chose "New" > "web site" and allowed IIS to create it.

Now the web-based Admin works, the FP Server Extensions work, and I can even connect remotely from a client machine through FP.

I stopped the origional sites, and even deleted them.

Everything is up and running. I guess it just needed to create the sites itself, rather than me creating the folders, and pointing IIS to them.

Thanks a million!


Chris



ellipisces -> closure (6/3/2006 6:08:37)

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