FP extensions can't be run

error: Cannot run the FrontPage Server Extensions on this page:

[mjd22]

I've found an error in my frontpage web index page that I don't know how to deal with. In a very obscure place, under properties on the icon for the home page in the navigation view, there is an error message:

Cannot run the FrontPage Server Extensions on this page: "test.php"

How can I work around this or figure out what it's really saying?

[jimbeetle]

Hi mjd22,

Welcome to WW.

As far as I know what this error message is saying is that the FP Server Extensions do not work with php files. I've found a few references to folks with the same problems you have here and in your other post [webmasterworld.com], but none with any definitive solution.

One was to rename the .php files on the server as .htm but this appeared to be very, very buggy and unstable. The only solution that appeared as a consensus (kind of) was to use PHP includes instead of FP page includes or shared borders, which kind of defeats one of the reasons to use Frontpage in the first place.

If most of your site is developed in PHP -- and depedning on which of the FP features you use -- it might not be a bad idea to check into one of the many PHP editors out there and consider porting the site over to a new development platform.

Jim

[pageoneresults]

it might not be a bad idea to check into one of the many PHP editors out there and consider porting the site over to a new development platform.

There is a plugin for FP called PHP Rocket which will allow you to build and maintain .php pages. I've never had the opportunity to use it but the reviews I've seen suggest that it is the tool to use when managing .php pages in FP.

Is test.php working right now? What exactly is happening due to this error?