FP2000: Registration Form Not Supported on IIS Web Server

If you try to use the Registration Form Handler in FrontPage on a Web site that is running the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) or Microsoft Personal Web Server, you may receive the following error message when you view the properties of the page:

Internet Information Server and Microsoft Personal Web Server do not allow users to register through a browser for access to a Web.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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 foruse with Web servers that support this feature, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: