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Q183046: FP97: Cannot Use Search Component With Active Server Pages

Article: Q183046
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta
Last Modified: 26-SEP-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows 
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For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see Q194284.

SYMPTOMS
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When you click the Search button on an Active Server Page (ASP), the results of
your search are returned, but the ASP script on your page does not execute. In
some cases, the following error message appears in your Web browser:

  FrontPage Error. User: please report details to this site's webmaster.

  Webmaster:
  please see the server's application event log for more details.

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the Address box in Internet Explorer
resembles this

  http://<myserver>/<myfile>.asp/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/<myfile>.asp.

where <myserver> is the location of your Web and <myfile> is the name
of the file you are previewing.

CAUSE
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You can not use the Search Form on an Active Server Page.

When an ASP page is requested on a server, Asp.dll parses it. It finds any script
specified to run on the server, executes it, and displays the results.

When you conduct a search using the Search Form, Shtml.dll parses the search page
and the results of the search are expanded into the search file and displayed in
the browser.

When a search is performed using the Search Form on an ASP page, Shtml.dll cannot
parse the file because Asp.dll is already parsing it. Because Shtml.dll fails,
it outputs the message described in the "Symptoms" section.

When using Microsoft Index Server, the Search Form does not use Shtml.dll.

Instead, the action for the form points to the .idq file associated with the
file.

RESOLUTION
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To work around this behavior, use one of the following methods

Method 1: Install Microsoft Index Server
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Install Microsoft Index Server on the Web server hosting your Web. For more
information about obtaining and installing Microsoft Index Server, please see
the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

  http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/default.asp

For additional information about using Index Server with FrontPage, click the
article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q166357 FP: How to Use FrontPage with Microsoft Index Server

Method 2: Use .htm or .html pages rather than .asp pages with Search Form
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Do not use Active Server Pages with the Search Form. Use .htm or .html pages
only.

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


Additional query words: run time search index

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Keywords          : kbdta 
Technology        : kbFrontPageSearch kbFrontPage97 kbZNotKeyword2 kbFrontPage97Search
Version           : :
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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