Topic: FrontPage Publishing

[Tim]

Hi all,

Here's a riddle.  I have a Windows 2K Server (SP2) and IE 5.5 as a production machine.  It sits behind the 5.1.2 Mitel.  I am publishing my sites to my remote Windows 2K Server (SP2).  Any MPG files in the site kill the connection.

I start the publish process, then sometimes I get hit with multiple authentication requests and then it hits the first MPG file.  It stalls.  No data transfer.  Then I have to reauthenticate and then it "processes" and sends back the message: Server connection timed out.

I reinstalled 2K several times in various configs and nothing would work.  Then it hit me.  I upgraded from E-smith 4.0 to 5.1.2.  BAM!  No mpg files can be uploaded.

To prove this theory I put the local server on the network on the other side of the Mitel box, configured it, and BAM!  It uploaded no sweat.  

Anyone have any ideas on what to do about this?

Thanks!
--Tim

[Dan G.]

There is thread from a couple of weeks ago regarding killing Squid
permanently --- do that first.  Once I did that, my FrontPage publishing
went smoothly, and that annoying multiple authentication request thing
stopped.

Good luck,

Dan

[Tim]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the fast reply.  I am not well versed in this OS.  What does Squid actually do?  What will be affected by disabling it?

Thanks again!

--tim

[Dan G.]

Squid is web page caching proxy that holds pages, and decides for you whether or not to go back to the web server to retrieve the page, or serve it to you from its own cache.  This is murder for FrontPage, and it is of dubious value on a home network, IMHO.  I was having MASSIVE problems with FrontPage the morning I upgraded to 5.1.2 -- but shutting Squid off set everything right immediately.

The instructions (robbed from a previous post) are:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop squid Transparent no
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/rc.d/init.d/masq
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/squid/squid.conf
service masq restart

If you print them out, and key them in (in order) at the command line (logged in as root), you should have Squid out of your way with no trouble.

Good luck,

Dan

[Tim]

Dan,

Thanks again!  I really appreciate it!

--tim

[Tim]

Hi Dan,

I tried it and it would not let me into the e-smith directory.  It said that is was "not a directory"  I could see it there but it was in dark blue.  I was logged in as root.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
--Tim

[Dan G.]

Tim,

Are you entering those lines, one at a time, in order?  When you login as root, you should be at

[ /root]#

From there you enter:

[ /root]# /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop squid Transparent no
Press enter...

[ /root]#  /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
Press enter...

[ /root]#  /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/rc.d/init.d/masq
Press enter...

[ /root]#  /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/squid/squid.conf
Press enter...

[ /root]#  service masq restart
Press enter...

You shouldn't need to navigate out of the /root directory where you login -- just stay right there as you enter the commands.  I know this command sequence works -- you just need to be exact with the entry.

Let me know how it works out.

Dan