Frontpage 2003 FTP problem

Couldn't find a web server ...

[storevalley]

Am having a great time (not!) trying to help a client pull the latest copy of their web site back from their web server :(

We can publish to the web site, but when trying to publish from the site to a local PC, we keep getting the following message in a dialog ...

Could not find a Web server at 'ftp.*****.co.uk' on port 21. Please check to make sure that the Web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set correctly. If you are sure that everything is correct, the Web server may be temporarily out of service.

This seems a little daft, because the files on the web site are listed!

Microsoft have posted some notes saying that this problem can be caused by a proxy server, and offers a workaround. But the client isn't using a proxy server.

Can anybody shed any light on this? Has anybody else had this problem and managed to find a workaround?

[Macro]

Is there some PWS (Personal Web Server) on something you need to have on the PC?

[jimbeetle]

Wow, I'd never thought to try going the 'other' way, but just tried it and it works like a charm.

Macro's right though, you do need a server of some sort (PWS, IIS, Apache, whatever) with Frontpage extensions installed on the local machine.

If you just need a local copy of the site you can either ftp it down or use FP's import site function.

[storevalley]

Thanks for the reply guys.

Macro's right though, you do need a server of some sort (PWS, IIS, Apache, whatever) with Frontpage extensions installed on the local machine.

Ahhh ... that explains why it works on my machine. I have IIS installed :)

If you just need a local copy of the site you can either ftp it down or use FP's import site function.

Tried the import function first, and this didn't work either. Got to "Retrieving pages from ... ", then FP just hung. Just tried this again on my own machine (complete with IIS installation) ... exactly the same result.

There are two of us working on the site ... I make any major structural changes needed, one of the office secretaries updates news, events, etc. So it helps if we can both publish each way.

Anything else you can think of to try? I did notice on my own machine that FP doesn't seem interested in sucking files back from the server unless you have created a site first.

So where import fails, creating a new empty site and publishing back to it works fine (shame this doesn't work for the client's secretary!)