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steveg -> FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/19/2009 13:27:59)

I have a website that has been running for a couple of years without any problems. Recently, I received a couple of emails saying that various contact forms were displaying a FrontPage error. I immediately suspected the FrontPage extensions and checked. They had been disabled?? Not by me I might add, and as i am the only person with access I suspect something at the srver end with the hosting company.

I enabled FrontPage extensions and expected everything to revert to normal. However, the user is now prompted for a user name and password (the FrontPage web login screen details) and if they are provided, it asks a second time (this time the saved password is missing). When the details are provided a second time, the form completes as accepted.

Subsequent form submissions are ok as the login details have been provided. This is not the way it was acting previously (obviously users do not have access to the site login details). It seems as though the form is updating a file that the system requires permission for. However, I am not sure which file and what may have caused this.

Anybody experience anything similar or have any thoughts?

Steve



Larry M. -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/19/2009 14:22:59)

DNS error on your site: http://www.jlh-associates.com.

Please post URL and we'll take a look-see.



steveg -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/19/2009 15:14:13)

Hi Larry

The site in question is http://www.mac-managers.com

Steve



Larry M. -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/19/2009 18:01:33)

Steve,

Your FPSE's are either missing or corrupted. The correct _vti_inf.html response to a FrontPage Configuration Information request is:

"In the HTML comments, this page contains configuration information that the FrontPage Explorer and FrontPage Editor need to communicate with the FrontPage server extensions installed on this web server. Do not delete this page."




steveg -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/20/2009 3:37:48)

Hi Larry

I have disabled and enabled my FPSE's in my Hosting Control Panel. The form appears to submit and the email arrives but the error message still shows on the screen. However, it must be a file permission that causes the problem because I have my emails also saving to csv files. If I remove the save to file details the form performs as expected. It seems as though there is not a permission to update the file in the _private folder. Is this set in IIS by the Hosting company?

Also, something else that I can't explain, one of my forms now displays the data backwards!!! Have I been hacked or is there some IIS explanation? Check it out here: http://www.4dpharmacy.com/corp_careers.htm

This site is in the same environment.

The annoying thing is that this site has been working fine for over a year. I suspect that somebody has tinkered with some settings behind the scenes. Any thoughts?

Steve



steveg -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/20/2009 4:17:20)

Please ignore the text typing backwards comment. After shutting down all my browser windows an re-opening it seems to be working as normal. Worried me for a minute or two though!

Steve



Larry M. -> RE: FrontPage form now requires user name & password (2/20/2009 6:33:13)

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Any thoughts?


Technology is supposedly associated with logic but, sometimes, illogical things happen. This is one of them.

Were it my site, rather than spending anymore time trying to find a fix, I would delete the Reply Form locally, republish overwriting all files on the server, rebuild another form from scratch and republish overwriting all files on the server again.

Note: the operative word Publish, not FTP. FTPing at any point after FPSE's are installed will, in all likelihood, corrupt them.



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