Frontpage, "you do not have permission to access this web folder location"

I have two questions:

A)  Do you host this site locally, or do you pay a host?  

B)  When you are trying to "Publish" the webpages, are you doing so in frontpage?


Judging from what you said in the question, you were editing the pages live on the server, which is why you were prompted for the username and password in order to edit the page.  If you host this site locally, you would be able to edit the page with any program, considering you have the correct permissions for the directory that the file is in.  If you are paying someone to host the site for you, the page you are editing with Publisher is a local copy of the file.  (hope that made sense)



Let me explain what is going on:

When you edit via Frontpage (open the site, enter your username & password, edit pages, save), the machine you are working with Frontpage on logs into the server and creates a session using Frontpage technology (its called Frontpage Server Extensions, or FPSE by us FrontPage guys). When you edit the page, a temporary copy of the page is downloaded to your machine from the server.  You make your changes and whatnot.  When you save the page, the local working copy is saved back to the server and the changes are reflected on the page when you view it through a browser.  This is true whether you host the site yourself (local host) or if someone is hosting the site for you (remote host).  Frontpage, unfortunately, isthe only Microsoft Office Product that uses the FPSE technology, and therefore the only MS Office program that you can use to make changes directly to the live pages.  This does not mean that it is the only program you can use to edit your webpages, you can use MS Word or Publisher.  However, you must be able to access a local copy of the page to do the editing, and you need to Publish (via Frontpage or FTP) the page to the web directory for the changes to take effect.  In effect, you can make all the changes to a page that you want using any program, but if you don't log into the server and transfer the changed pages to the web directory, the changes will not take effect.

Now that my brief lecture is over, I hope you have a better understanding of the entire process.  Here is my proposed solution:


IF you want to edit the page w/ Publisher, open it in Publisher and save a copy to another location (ie Desktop).  When you are finished editing the page in Publisher, save it.  Then, open Frontpage and open the site that you are editing (File>Open Site) - you will be prompted for the username and password at this point.  Open the page that you just finished editing (File>Open), and save it (File>Save As) as the original file in the web directory.

Another suggestion I will make to you is to open Frontpage, open your site, then Publsih the site to a local directory.  File>Publish Site, select "Remote", then Browse, and choose (or create) a directory to save the site to.  This will copy all of the files from the server to the local directory.  This way, you can work on the files locally, and then when they are done, you can reverse the process (File>Publish Site, select "Remote" and enter the web address of the website)  If you are the only person working on the site (which it doesn't sound like you are) then you will always have an updated copy on your machine.  If there are multiple people working on the site, you can choose a shared location on the network to make the "local" directory.

If this is what you are doing, or if you try this and it does not work, let me know.  There may be deeper issues that I can help you with.  Otherwise, I think the above should solve your problem.

nprignano