My company recently migrated a couple sites from an RH7.2 box to a
RH9.0 box. The old box was running Apache 1.3, but the new one has
Apache 2.0 installed, all from RPM. Everything has worked fine so
far, but I'm having *lots* of trouble with FrontPage extensions. I've
installed the scripts and the server has everything it needs, but when
I go to the webadmin page from an Internet browser to extend the
virtual servers, not all of them accept the username/password. Of the
7 sites that are currently hosted on the new box, only 3 accept the
admin username/password that I used when installing the extensions on
the server.

When I checked the error log, I saw many messages like this:

[Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] (2)No such
file or directory: Could not open password file:
/www/vweb/mysite.com/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd, referer:
http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm
[Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] user
frontpageadmin not found: /_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmcgi.exe, referer:
http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm

The problem in here is that the old box used the directory
/var/www/vweb/..., but the new box uses /var/www/.... My conf file
has been updated for the new box, nothing is pointing to the old /vweb
directory.

Any thoughts or suggestions? I've been working on this for too long
and am getting very frustrated.

Thanks,
Elise

Did the .htaccess files come from the old box? The .htaccesss file in the
web's root folder may contain a reference to the vweb folder - mine shows
the full path to service.pwd

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"Elise" <Elise.Nein [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f93b6f07.0411091526.65c72ac0 [at] posting.google.com...
> My company recently migrated a couple sites from an RH7.2 box to a
> RH9.0 box. The old box was running Apache 1.3, but the new one has
> Apache 2.0 installed, all from RPM. Everything has worked fine so
> far, but I'm having *lots* of trouble with FrontPage extensions. I've
> installed the scripts and the server has everything it needs, but when
> I go to the webadmin page from an Internet browser to extend the
> virtual servers, not all of them accept the username/password. Of the
> 7 sites that are currently hosted on the new box, only 3 accept the
> admin username/password that I used when installing the extensions on
> the server.
>
> When I checked the error log, I saw many messages like this:
>
> [Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] (2)No such
> file or directory: Could not open password file:
> /www/vweb/mysite.com/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd, referer:
> http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm
> [Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] user
> frontpageadmin not found: /_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmcgi.exe, referer:
> http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm
>
> The problem in here is that the old box used the directory
> /var/www/vweb/..., but the new box uses /var/www/.... My conf file
> has been updated for the new box, nothing is pointing to the old /vweb
> directory.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions? I've been working on this for too long
> and am getting very frustrated.
>
> Thanks,
> Elise

How did they "migrate" them to the new server??

You need to "Publish" them from server to server, or from the client to a server.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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"Elise" <Elise.Nein [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f93b6f07.0411091526.65c72ac0 [at] posting.google.com...
> My company recently migrated a couple sites from an RH7.2 box to a
> RH9.0 box. The old box was running Apache 1.3, but the new one has
> Apache 2.0 installed, all from RPM. Everything has worked fine so
> far, but I'm having *lots* of trouble with FrontPage extensions. I've
> installed the scripts and the server has everything it needs, but when
> I go to the webadmin page from an Internet browser to extend the
> virtual servers, not all of them accept the username/password. Of the
> 7 sites that are currently hosted on the new box, only 3 accept the
> admin username/password that I used when installing the extensions on
> the server.
>
> When I checked the error log, I saw many messages like this:
>
> [Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] (2)No such
> file or directory: Could not open password file:
> /www/vweb/mysite.com/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd, referer:
> http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm
> [Thu Nov 04 17:07:36 2004] [error] [client 151.197.***.***] user
> frontpageadmin not found: /_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmcgi.exe, referer:
> http://151.197.***.***:8088/fpadmcgi.exe?page=fpadmin.htm
>
> The problem in here is that the old box used the directory
> /var/www/vweb/..., but the new box uses /var/www/.... My conf file
> has been updated for the new box, nothing is pointing to the old /vweb
> directory.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions? I've been working on this for too long
> and am getting very frustrated.
>
> Thanks,
> Elise

Check the .htaccess files for the webs in question.
They may still be pointing to the old style setup.

Also try owsadm.exe -o recalc for each virtual.

Also confirm that the /usr/local/frontpage/myweb:80.cnf files have
servertype apache-2.0 defined.

gail [at] rtr.com (Gail Mignard) wrote in message news:<95402340.0411100720.45a0149f [at] posting.google.com>...
> Check the .htaccess files for the webs in question.
> They may still be pointing to the old style setup.
>
> Also try owsadm.exe -o recalc for each virtual.
>
> Also confirm that the /usr/local/frontpage/myweb:80.cnf files have
> servertype apache-2.0 defined.


Thanks for all the input from everyone!

Once I figured out how to view .htaccess files, I discovered that the
guy who used to admin the sites put a pesky .htaccess file into every
folder in each of the web directories. So I went through and
redirected the ones that were neccessary, and deleted the ones that
weren't.

I tried executing owsadm.exe -o recalc for each site, but when I did
it gave me a message saying that FrontPage Server Extensions were not
installed. How is it possible that I get this message when I already
installed the extensions? I can log into the web GUI and admin the
sites. Any thoughts?

Thanks again

Try using:

RootWeb
owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p 80 -web
/
Virtualweb
owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p
VIRTUALWEB:80 -web /

Subwebs

owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p
VIRTUALWEB:80 -web SUBWEB

gail [at] rtr.com (Gail Mignard) wrote in message news:<95402340.0411120713.6eda4087 [at] posting.google.com>...
> Try using:
>
> RootWeb
> owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p 80 -web
> /
> Virtualweb
> owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p
> VIRTUALWEB:80 -web /
>
> Subwebs
>
> owsadm.exe -o recalc -t apache-2.0 -s /path/to/httpd.conf -p
> VIRTUALWEB:80 -web SUBWEB

Well, I tried what you suggested but I'm still getting the same error
message. I guess I need to do some more investigation into my server.
I'll post again if I have other questions....

Thanks!