ID: q160227
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The FrontPage WebBot components that interact with your Web browser will not function when the FrontPage web is disk-based. The browse-time WebBot components will only function through an HTTP server.
The WebBot browse-time components are
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In addition, the Internet Database Connector runs only when it is served
on a Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 97, Windows NT Peer Web
Services for NT 4.0 Workstation, and Microsoft Internet Information
Server for NT Server.
A disk-based Web can be identified in the title bar of the FrontPage Explorer when you view the Web. A disk-based Web will have a drive letter and backslashes within parenthesis, as in the following example:
(c:\myweb)
A server-based Web will have "http:" and forward slashes within
parenthesis, as in the following example:
(http://myweb)
If you want to enable the WebBot browse-time components, copy your disk-
based Web to an HTTP server. FrontPage 97 with Bonus pack comes with two
Web servers to choose from: the FrontPage Personal Web Server and the
Microsoft Personal Web Server.
Also, note that when you create a large disk-based Web, the status bar in FrontPage Explorer may display the "updating text indices" message. However, this information is misleading, because there are no indices on a disk-based Web.
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Version : windows:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprb
Last Reviewed: May 20, 1999