Hi all,

It's been a terribly long time since I've used FrontPage and I've never created a site completely on my own (I'd design and have someone else handle the back end) so I'm completely lost with how to get things going.

When I open FrontPage98 a 'Getting Started' box appears giving me two options ('Open an existing FrontPage Web' and 'Create a new FrontPage Web') and no matter which I choose I nearly always get an error message (posted below). I say almost because though I started the program exactly the same way each time (there aren't many different ways to do a left-mouse-click    ) two times I was able to get going. Once I was able to create a new FrontPage Web and another time I was able to open it (though then I kept getting the same error message nearly every time I tried to do something).

The error message says for me to contact either my internet service provider (I'm currently on dial-up so no luck there) or my web server administrator (I hope I'm correct in assuming that that’s what LP is), which is why I am posting here. Can anyone tell me what might be going wrong as I've tried FrontPage Help and also searched the net for answers but didn't have any luck with either and have no idea where else to look? Any advice would be greatly appreciated (though I already know not to eat yellow snow so no need filling me in on that one:) ). Thank you in advance for your time.

Most kindly,
Dawn

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This is the error message that I get:

"The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or web server administrator to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server extensions installed. For more specific information, click Details."

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Then when I click the 'Details' button I get this:

"Below is the message that the server returned. For more informatio, contact yout Internet service provider or web server asministrator.

404 Not Found
404 Not Found The requested URL /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc was not found on this server."
 
 [ November 24, 2002, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: daybreak6876 ]

Joanne,

Thank you for responding. I really appreciate your help. Yes, at first I hadn't set the FrontPage extensions from the cPanel. Then I stumbled onto them and though I'm still slightly confused as to what they are exactly I downloaded them but unfortunately am still having the same problem loading FrontPage. I've since ordered a few used FP manuals from Amazon and expect them to arrive soon so I still have my fingers crossed for the time being.    Again, thank you so much. Please take care and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Genuinely,
Dawn