FP97: Some WebBot Components Don't Work on Disk-Based Web

ID: q160227

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack

SUMMARY

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.

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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.

Additional query words: 97 dbw

Keywords          : kbenv kbusage kbdta 
Version           : windows:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 20, 1999