PRB: Error "Cannot Update the File" When You Try to Save a File (192150)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0
This article was previously published under Q192150

SYMPTOMS

When you save a file in Visual InterDev, you receive one of the following error messages:
Cannot update the file '<path and filename>'. The web server does not appear to have any authentication methods enabled. The server has asked for user authentication but did not send a WWW-Authenticate header.

-or-

Cannot update the file '<path and filesname>'. An HTTP error occurred. The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or Web server administrator to make sure that the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed, and that the Web application exists on that server.

CAUSE

If Allow Anonymous Access is the only authentication method that is selected for the virtual directory that contains the project, Internet Information Server will not send a WWW-Authenticate header to the client. The WWW-Authenticate header tells the client what types of authentication the server will accept. When you save a file to the Web server in Visual InterDev, authentication is required.

RESOLUTION

Enable one or more authentication methods on the virtual directory that contains the project. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Open the Internet Service Manager.
  2. Right-click the virtual directory that contains the project.
  3. On the Directory Security tab, click Edit in Anonymous Access and Authentication Control.
  4. Select the Basic Authentication check box and/or the Windows NT Challenge/Response check box.
  5. Click OK to close the Authentication Methods dialog box.
  6. Click OK to close the directory's Properties dialog box.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open the Internet Service Manager.
  2. Right-click the virtual directory that contains the project.
  3. On the Directory Security tab, click Edit in Anonymous Access and Authentication Control.
  4. Clear all of the authentication method check boxes except Allow Anonymous Access.
  5. Click OK to close the Authentication Methods check box.
  6. Click OK to close the directory's Properties check box.
  7. Attempt to save changes to a file in the project using Visual InterDev.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:8/22/2001
Keywords:kbDSupport kbExtension kbide kbprb kbSecurity kbServer KB192150
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