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HTML Renders Locally from HD, but not when Served by IIS 10

I recently had to build a new web server after a power surge killed my 15 year old Dell server which was serving pages properly under IIS 7.5.

I spent a week working out many problems on setting up IIS 10, and thought I was out of the woods, but I discovered today that some elements of my pages are not rendering at all when served from this new server. However, if I open the page from the disc locally, it renders correctly.

This leads me to think that there is one or more remaining configurations I forgot to do on the server.

The stuff that isn’t rendering are things like navigation buttons and external embedded video links.

Code below:

(buttons that only render locally, but not when served by IIS 10)

[code]
<!–webbot bot=”Navigation” S-Type=”sequence” S-Orientation=”horizontal” S-Rendering=”graphics” S-Theme=”sonora” B-Include-Home=”TRUE” B-Include-Up=”FALSE” U-Page=”sid:1001″ –></font></td>
[/code]

(linked videos that only render locally but not when served by IIS)

[code]
<p align=”left”><b><font face=”Arial”>See it in action:</font></b></p>
<p align=”center”>&nbsp;
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/w_wUCk1jBO0&hl=en&fs=1&” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p align=”center”>&nbsp;
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/AfolcWik7pM&hl=en&fs=1&” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p align=”left”>
[/code]

I suspect this is a web server config problem, but it’s been 15 years since I last set this stuff up, and I cannot find any specific articles by searching which address this particular issue. I hope someone can spot this and say it was a simple matter to enable this or install that extension, etc.

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@tracknutNov 27.2021 — To my understanding "webbot" was a call out to FrontPage Extensions, components on the server that had to be installed over and above the standard web server. Perhaps they're missing on the new installation. I've never installed IIS, so can't help much, but was there an option to set up FrontPage Extensions when you installed the server?
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@NogDogNov 28.2021 — @basspig#1639914 Please be sure to use this forum's ... tags around your code blocks in future posts. I added them to your original post here.
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@basspigauthorNov 28.2021 — @tracknut#1639915 I would have to assume they are missing on the new server build. But it seems there's nothing for IIS 10.

But that doesn't explain why the menus and buttons and external links render when I open the HTML document directly in Chrome. Chrome doesn't have FrontPage extensions, does it?

I tried to find a download for FrontPage extensions, but the only site that comes up is unsecure and the browser won't let me download the installer due to "attackers may be trying to get into your PC" or some such error message.

My previous server ran Win 7 and IIS 7.5 with FP extensions. I don't remember having to pay a license fee to get it either, but the sketchy site indicates there being a license fee.
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@tracknutNov 28.2021 — @basspig#1639919 I'm really out of water here, haven't used FrontPage in at least 20 years... so take any of this with a grain of salt.

FrontPage being discontinued long ago, perhaps FP Extensions isn't available or supported on IIS10? I would be searching MS sites for information on FrontPage and what it works on. Random sketchy sites can be sketchy :) If it were me, I'd be thinking those components of your site need to be re-written - I know that's not what you want to hear.
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@basspigauthorNov 28.2021 — @tracknut#1639920 the part that makes no sense is why does the page work when I load it into a browser locally and not when it's loaded from a web server? Does Chrome browser have FrontPage extensions to run the code that are suppressed when viewing the same page served by an IIS 10 server?

The buttons are one thing, but what about the external embedded Youtube video? Again, that appears on the page if I locally open it from the HD, but not when opened on the web server.

I have other sites that use the same Webbot code to produce buttons for the menu and that site is working.

I find it baffling that a page functions locally but not when served by IIS 10.
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