FP: Registration Form not Supported on IIS Web Server

ID: Q155770


The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
  • Microsoft FrontPage for Windows 1.1
  • Microsoft FrontPage for the Power Macintosh, version 1.0


SYMPTOMS

If you try to use the FrontPage Registration WebBot in on a Web site running the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) or Microsoft Personal Web Server, you may receive the following error message when viewing the properties of the page:

This server does not support registered end users.


CAUSE

Internet Information Server and Microsoft Personal Web Server do not allow users to register through a browser for access to a Web.


MORE INFORMATION

IIS requires that all users, authors, and administrators of a FrontPage Web have valid Windows NT accounts. User accounts can only be created by a Windows NT administrator using User Manager. The HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) does not support creating user accounts.

When you create a registration Web, you ask the server to create and update a list of registered users based on input from HTTP browsers. IIS is not designed to support the creation of registered users without creating a corresponding Windows NT account.

For additional information about how to create a registration page for use with Web servers that support this feature, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q143092 FP: How to Create a Registration Web

Additional query words: logon restricted restrict security

Keywords : kbusage kbdta fpiis
Version : :; MACINTOSH:1.0; WINDOWS:1.1
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
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Last Reviewed: January 4, 2000
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