Recently, all of my development group switched over to Local mode.  We did
this so that (1) we could develop (meaning break pages ;) and not disturb
each other, and (2) so we could use ASP server side debugging.
The problem, I have just found out has to do with cookies and webs.  When we
set ourselves up for local mode, this is the process we used (slightly
abbreviated):
1. Create new local Interdev project, using the main development server as
the server, and local mode.
2. Then we created an IIS virtual directory under our "default web site" on
our machines. This virtual directory is pointed at the "_Local" directory of
the project directory (d:\wwwdev\project\project_Local)

This all seems to work fine so far.  However, when we go into debug mode,
and the IE window comes up, the location is "//computername/project_Local".
Now, I don't recall setting up a "..._Local" virtual directory. It seems to
have appeared on it's own, an apparent side effect of debugging, Interdev,
FrontPage Extensions, who knows.  So, then you follow certain links on the
pages, and those links are mapped to "//computername/project/project_local".
The only difference being that "local" is now all lower case. Unfortunately,
this registers as a different URL so the cookies don't come with it. This is
a major problem for us as much of the functionality is based on a few key
values in cookies.

Suggestions?  Another programmer here just told me to try renaming the
physical directory to all lower case. I've been working on this, but, as I
expected, am running into directory permissions issues. I'll send an update
if it takes care of the problem.

Thanks.

Peter Lanoie
Web/Software Engineer
Nexus Energy Software
planoie@e...
781.283.9160x321