HOWTO: Enable Event Error Logging for FrontPage 98 & SourceSafe

ID: Q191289

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows versions 5.0, 6.0
Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows, version 98

SUMMARY

With FrontPage 97, errors relating to the SourceSafe integration automatically display in the Web Server NT Event Log, usually on the Application tab. However, this behavior must be enabled in FrontPage 98 or FrontPage 2000.

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Front Page 98 Server Extensions

Adding the following entry to the Frontpg.ini file on the Web server, allows you to see the error messages that are causing the SourceSafe integration in FrontPage to fail:


   LogInitialSourceControlErrors=1

The preceding line should be placed in the "[FrontPage 3.0]" section of the Frontpg.ini file.

Front Page 2000 Server Extensions (version 4.0.2.2717 or later)

Add the following registry entry as a String Value:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\All Ports \LogInitialSourceControlErrors

with the value "1"

NOTE: All errors logged by FrontPage regarding SourceSafe integration are logged at the server end of the transaction. On a Windows NT system, the errors are logged in the "Windows NT Event Viewer Application" log. On a computer running Windows 95 or Windows 98, the errors are logged in the Frontpg log file located in the root of the drive to which Windows is installed. The errors are not logged to the client computer.

In both cases you may want to set the value to zero once all errors have been resolved to avoid unnecessary activity in the Event log.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbFrontPage kbSSafe500 kbSSafe600
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,6.0,98
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto