Installing the FrontPage Server Extensions Fails if There are Nested Virtual Servers

ID: Q201522

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

SYMPTOMS

When you install the FrontPage Server Extensions to a virtual server that you have created, you get the following error message:

Unable to create a web for the URL "/" because its root directory, <path1>, falls below the root of another web in the directory, <path2>.

Where <path1> is the path to the home directory of the virtual server you are trying to install the extensions to, and <path2> is the path to the home directory of the virtual server that contains it. For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194475 FP98: Server Extensions Do Not Support Nested Virtual Roots

CAUSE

You received the above error message because you are currently set up with nested virtual servers. This means that you have configured your virtual servers in such a way that they overlap. While this may be a valid setup for your Web server, Microsoft FrontPage cannot work properly in this environment.

WORKAROUND

When setting up your virtual servers to work with FrontPage Server Extensions, you will have to set them up so that they do not overlap. For instance:


C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\        (typically default Web site on IIS)
C:\Inetpub\Virtualserver1\
C:\Inetpub\Virtualserver2\

-or-

C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\Wwwroot2\  (default Web site remapped to \Wwwroot2)
C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\Virtualserver1\
C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\Virtualserver2\

As an alternative, you could put them all in different directories on your server. For instance:


C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot  (typically default Web site on IIS)
C:\Webs\Virtualserver1\
D:\Websites\Virtualserver2

As long as the virtual servers do not overlap, you can structure them to be anywhere on the server you want them.

NOTE: The above scenarios are typical for Internet Information Server on Windows NT. The same requirements apply to UNIX platforms as well.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.

Additional query words: 97 front page

Keywords : fpse2000
Version : winnt:
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug