The most common error you get when publishing the site by using FrontPage is
403 Forbidden error
Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/x.x.x Server at yourdomain.com Port 80
To solve this, login to your server as root.
Find out the owner for your domain where you seems to have the “403 Forbidden error”
Then fire the following command one by one :
touch /home/username/public_html/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe
- or
touch ~username/public_html/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe
chown username.username ~username/public_html/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.ex
chmod 644 ~username/public_html/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.ex
If you are having Frontpage problem with the addon domain then change the path as per your addon domain document root path and create a author.ex file under your addon domain.Then try to publish your site by using Frontpage