Any Successful FrontPage Ext install?

awesomejt · 01-26-2004, 02:09 PM

Looking for folks that have actually installed MS FrontPage Extensions (v5.0 for unix apache-2.0) successfully.

I've spent a lot of time on it recently and have gotten no-where.

I'm using FP 2002 Ext (v 1.2)
Apache 2.0.49 (rpm upgraded to 2.0.49 from up2date)
http-devel, apr-utils, apr-devel-utils installed.

Any ideas? I wanted to keep the RPM install of apache intacted because
I like updating with apt-get or up2date.

Particularly, I can't get past the port 80 problem, even specifying in my config ServerName myhost:80

I've also tried skipping that part of the install and using the command line install for root web and same results.

Thanks.

PatomaS · 01-26-2004, 04:15 PM

Just a question

Why you want to use Front Page ?

I mean no matter it it is used in Linux or in Windows...

do you really need it?

awesomejt · 01-27-2004, 06:49 AM

In a word. YES!

I have clients that require that which that mean they require that I support it. I'm trying to avoid using a Windows server here. If I don't support FrontPage, my clients will go elsewhere. I have RedHat 8 working with them but my dedicated host is requiring me to upgrade to a "supported" OS now that RedHat has EOLed RH 8 and I'm not ready to pay $$$ for RHEL. So, it is either Fedora or Debian -- and I'm more familiar and comfortable with Fedora.

So, security issues aside. Any luck anyone?

jeradhayes · 03-12-2004, 09:07 AM

Alas, for some reason people continue to use FrontPage...but for us poor sods that have to manage the servers, here's a nice howto for installation on FC1 boxes...(this isn't the exact howto I used, because I can't find that one anymore, but this one seems to have all the steps)

http://69.140.74.3/GeezerNation/imag...Notes/FPSE.htm

After you're all done, make sure that you re-post frontpage "webs" using the frontpage clients. Don't just tar up directories and move them over, or you might end up with multiple administration programs like I did

Jerad

awesomejt · 03-12-2004, 09:54 AM

Yeah, I found that same webpage and it worked fine for me. I also discovered that adding virtual hosts with FrontPage is easiest done with putting all the virtual hosts sections in the httpd.conf file instead of using the /etc/httpd/conf.d included configuration files that is setup on Fedora by default. I still use the conf.d approach for non-FrontPage virtual hosts.