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What are some commonly encountered FrontPage installation errors?

April 26, 2017Commonly encountered errors Frontpage installation

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What are some commonly encountered FrontPage installation errors?

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Urchin If Urchin 3 is currently installed and generating reports for a user’s site, our FrontPage installation tool lists the .htaccess file in /stats/urchin/.htaccess as being invalid. A software solution to this bug is under development. For now, to work around the bug, rename the .htaccess file and replace it AFTER the FrontPage extensions have been installed. Password Protected Directories, .htaccess, custom index files, and custom 404 documents The FrontPage installation tool will give a warning about any directory that is password protected by our Web Passwords tool or any htaccess file that has been previously modified. Custom Index files, Custom 404 documents, and machine name re-directs will all error out if the htaccess file does not have the following line as the first line: # -Microsoft FrontPage- Two Accounts on the Same Server If a client has (or had) two accounts with the same domain name on one server, the FrontPage installation tool may not work correctly. The tool wil

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Urchin If Urchin is currently installed and generating reports for a user’s site, our FrontPage installation tool lists the .htaccess file in /stats/urchin/.htaccess as being invalid. A software solution to this bug is under development. For now, to work around the bug, rename the .htaccess file and replace it AFTER the FrontPage extensions have been installed. Password Protected Directories, .htaccess, custom index files, and custom 404 documents The FrontPage installation tool will give a warning about any directory that is password protected by our Web Passwords tool or any htaccess file that has been previously modified. Custom Index files, Custom 404 documents, and machine name re-directs will all error out if the htaccess file does not have the following line as the first line: # -Microsoft FrontPage- Two Accounts on the Same Server If a client has (or had) two accounts with the same domain name on one server, the FrontPage installation tool may not work correctly. The tool will