Earlier today I had a problem with a default.htm file being created when I published my forum with MS FrontPage 2002. This issue was resolved by manually renaming default.htm to default.asp. Everything is working fine except that the title image at the top of the forum and the "All Forum" link in the admin menu is still pointing to default.htm instead of default.asp.
I assume that this problem is due to FrontPage modifying a link but I do not know where to look to resolve this.
The title image doesn't get it's URL from the database, it's hard coded in inc_top.asp so you'll have to open it in a text editor and make the change there. The URL of the "all forums" link is set in the Admin Options > Main Forum Configuration > Home URL.
I do not seem to be able to change the Forum URL. I accessed the admin menu and change the Forum URL and I got a message that indicates the configuration has been updated. If I revisit the admin menu my selected URL is shown however the title image and the all forums links will not update. They remain as default.htm no matter what I put in the forum URL setting!
In the inc_top.asp the title image graphic is shown as default.asp. The exact line is "<td valign="top" width="50%"><a href="default.asp"><img alt="<% =strForumTitle %>" border="0" src="<%=strTitleImage%>"></a></td>".
Also the url of the all forums link is presently set in the Admin Options > Main Forum Configuration to "http://www.ezBusinessSystems.com/forums/". This correctly displays the forums page default.asp. Yet the link to the all forums and the title image header still trys to display the nonexistent file default.htm instead of default.asp
MikeMike, as Frutlze says, you will have to edit inc_top.asp manually, with a text editor (NOT Frontpage!) Seems that Frontpage converts every reference to default.asp into default.htm. If you look at the sourcecode of you forum's main page http://www.ezbusinesssystems.com/forums/ you will see the reference to default.htm even if FP may show you something else. FP is a good editor for certain purpuses but not for asp pages. There are a lot of good text editors you can use, some are even free. You may get some ideas here http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25251 which one to use. You should do a site-wide search-and-replace (good editors offer such an option) to be sure to replace any "default.htm" which FP might have brought into your code by "default.asp".
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Posted - 13 May 2002 : 15:10:04
Nathan Bales