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From: hardingdg on 2 Aug 2006 09:29
I am managing an old website that was built before using Dreamweaver.

When I try to connect to the site through Dreamweaver II see a message on the
site;

Important information:
----------------------
By activating MS Frontpage Extensions you can no longer access your
website with FTP. Please make sure that the MS Frontpage Extensions
are disabled.
If you still have problems after disabling the MS Frontpage
Extensions please contact our support.
Many thanks!

I do not have the Front Page extension in my Dreamweaver Extension Manager.

Is there something in the old code that causes this problem? Is it something
that I can eliminate in a Dreamweaver edit of some kind?

TIA, Dave Harding

From: Murray *ACE* on 2 Aug 2006 10:00
> By activating MS Frontpage Extensions you can no longer access your
> website with FTP.

This says about everything. Because the site was created with Microsoft
FrontPage, and it uses FrontPage extensions, the host's FTP access has been
disabled (FP does not use FTP, and in fact, connecting with FTP will break
the FP extension's tight link with the files on the site). In order to
maintain this site with DW now, you would have to ensure the following -

1. All functions in the current site that utilize the FP Server Extensions
have been replicated in your DW pages - this would include Form
processing/emailing, guestbooks, etc.
2. FP will never again be used to maintain the site
3. You ask the host to enable FTP connection, and this has been done

Otherwise, you are going to watch a train wreck happen.

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"hardingdg" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eaq9av$t1h$1(a)forums.macromedia.com...
>I am managing an old website that was built before using Dreamweaver.
>
> When I try to connect to the site through Dreamweaver II see a message on
> the
> site;
>
> Important information:
> ----------------------
> By activating MS Frontpage Extensions you can no longer access your
> website with FTP. Please make sure that the MS Frontpage Extensions
> are disabled.
> If you still have problems after disabling the MS Frontpage
> Extensions please contact our support.
> Many thanks!
>
> I do not have the Front Page extension in my Dreamweaver Extension
> Manager.
>
> Is there something in the old code that causes this problem? Is it
> something
> that I can eliminate in a Dreamweaver edit of some kind?
>
> TIA, Dave Harding
>


From: Middletree on 2 Aug 2006 10:13
Murray, your answer is correct, but I think that Dave's problem is a
confusion over the term "extension", which means one thing for FP and
another when discussing DW.

Dave, FP extensions are on the server, not your DW software. With that in
mind, re-read Murray's post, and it'll all come together.


From: New Guy on 2 Aug 2006 11:25
my advise: if you only need to make minor edits, do it in FrontPage. If
you need to make major changes, you'll want to redo the whole site in
Dreamweaver.
:(
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