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Godaddy and Frontpage Forms
Friday, December 26, 2008
Since some users are still relying on FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to process their Frontpage form, you might still have problems from time to time. You might get a specific Frontpage error when you hit submit.As pointed out earlier when publishing to a Godaddy server, you need to make sure you publish with the www in your domain name (Problems with FrontPage Forms).
Chances are, you will need to make sure the FrontPage form is also brought up with the www in your domain name as well. For example, instead of http://example.com/contact.html it should be http://www.example.com/contact.html. Otherwise the user might receive an error message
The server example.com at : requires a username and password.
Warning, this server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an unsecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection).
Once the submit button, you are probably expecting an email to arrive with the information you entered into your FrontPage form. After a few minutes, it is still not there. So you try again (and again) with nothing in your email box. Check the email address that you are using. Some mail servers (both incoming and outgoing) will require that you use an email address that is attached to your domain name, so that gmail or hotmail address might not work.
A Possible Work Around
One way to maybe get around this is to set up a forwarded email account. For example, set up expressionweb@example.com to forward to example@gmail.com. This way, the FrontPage form will send the email to expressionweb@example.com and you should get the email in your gmail account.
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