FP98: Cannot Use Search Component With Active Server Pages (194284)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q194284 For a Microsoft FrontPage 2002 version of this
article, see
292629. For a Microsoft FrontPage
2000 version of this article, see
205540. For a Microsoft FrontPage 97
version of this article, see
183046. SYMPTOMS 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 run. In some cases, you receive the following error message 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 where <myserver> is the location of your Web and
<myfile> is the name of the file you are previewing. CAUSE You cannot 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, runs 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 To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods:
Method 1: Install Microsoft Index Server Install Microsoft Index Server on the Web server hosting your
Web. For more information about how to obtain and install Microsoft Index
Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site: For additional information about how to use Index
Server with FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base: 194075 FP98: How to Use FrontPage with Microsoft Index Server on
IIS 3.0
Method 2: Use .htm or .html Instead Of .asp Pages With the Search Form Do not use Active Server Pages with the Search Form. Use .htm or
.html pages only. STATUS Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the
Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 1/15/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb KB194284 |
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