Troubleshoot publishing

After I publish my web site, certain components don't work.

You may have published to a Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with http://.) that does not have the most recent version of the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions (FrontPage Server Extensions: A set of programs and s that support authoring in FrontPage and extend the functionality of a Web server. ) or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft. Without the server extensions, certain features will not work, such as most form handlers (form handler: A program on a server that is executed when a site visitor submits a form. A form in FrontPage is associated with a form handler.), search forms (Search Form component: A component in FrontPage that creates a form that provides full-text searching capability in your web site.), and hit counters (Hit Counter component: A component in FrontPage that keeps track of the number of visitors to a World Wide Web site.).

Check with your Internet service provider (ISP: A business that provides access to the Internet for such things as electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web. Some ISPs are multinational, offering access in many locations, while others are limited to a specific region.) or web site administrator to find out if the Web server you are publishing to has the necessary server extensions.

I want to publish a file that I originally set as Don't Publish.

1. On the File menu, click Publish Web.
2. Right-click the file, and click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Click the Workgroup tab.
4. Clear the check box that says Exclude this file when publishing the rest of the Web.

I re-published a web site with a guestbook that had site visitors' input, and now the pages are blank

Certain files should not be published again after you first publish your web site. If you have created and published a web site with a guestbook, and then later update your web site and publish all of your files, your guestbook will be replaced by a blank one, causing you to lose all of your information. Other examples include pages with a hit counter or discussion web sites.

My SharePoint Team Services document library, interactive list, or survey is not published when I publish my web.

If your web site contains a SharePoint Team Services document library, interactive list, or survey, you must author your web site directly on a server that is running SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft.

I can't publish my Web site based on SharePoint Team Services to another server.

Because a Web site based on SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft contains certain components that only work on the server on which they were authored, you can't publish it elsewhere.