FP98: File Hyperlinks Have Beginning Slash, Appear Broken

ID: Q189875

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

Valid hyperlinks to files are shown as broken in Hyperlink Status view in FrontPage Explorer. In addition, you may see a slash (/) inserted at the beginning of a file hyperlink in either Hyperlink Status view or Hyperlinks view, similar to this:

/D:/myfolder/myfile.exe
This behavior appears if your Web is disk-based.


CAUSE

FrontPage Explorer does not remove the slash from the beginning of the hyperlink before it verifies the hyperlink in a disk-based Web. Therefore, the hyperlink appears broken even though the hyperlink is correct.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, import the page or the entire Web into a server- based Web.

For additional information about creating server-based Webs with Microsoft FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q166356 FP: How to Create a New Web in Microsoft FrontPage
For more information about importing files or Webs, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text
import file
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Import File To FrontPage Web dialog box" topic.

For more information about using the Import Web Wizard to import a remote web to your local computer, click the Index tab in Microsoft FrontPage Help, type the following text
Import Web
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Import Web Wizard" topic. 


Keywords          : fpexp fpviews 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: July 30, 1999