Article ID: 155770 - Last Review: November 13, 2003 - Revision: 2.0

FP: Registration Form not Supported on IIS Web Server

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For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 208637  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208637/EN-US/ ) .
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194452  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194452/EN-US/ ) .
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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:
143092  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/143092/EN-US/ ) FP: How to Create a Registration Web

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 for Macintosh
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