[101632] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Installing Frontpage 98 Extensions - How to?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jp@sugar.midcoast.com)
Fri Nov 27 22:10:47 1998
From: jp@sugar.midcoast.com
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:02:24 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <000a01be1a2d$3c274690$c859799f@osmosis.hcs.state.or.us> from "Ed Lazor" at Nov 27, 98 09:41:59 am
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> Hi :) I know you guys are gonna hate me for wanting to install a
> Micro$oft product in the RedHat 5.2 environment... my only excuse
> is that it's for the user's....
>
> Ok... with that out of the way... *grin*
>
> Would someone mind giving me a quick overview on adding the
> Frontpage 98 server extensions to an Apache 1.3.3 web server?
> I've tried to help by listing what I've done and how I thought
> things were supposed to work. I've already tried a few times
> without luck and I think I'm just doing it wrong so if you
> could verify what I've listed below and give a quick overview,
> it would be greatly appreciated :)
>
> -Ed
We put FP97 extensions on a linux machine a year or two ago. I'll never do
it again. It was a big pain with poor documentation, and in the end, I
didn't like what it did to the file permissions of the customer's files.
My labor was not worth what it took to get it going. I did it just to
prove to myself that I was not a failure at installing software.
Now we have a couple customers demanding it, despite my warnings that
it will lock them into a microsoft only situation with no way out, but if
they want to buy it, I can sell it. We're building an NT server for this
purpose. I don't really want to, but it will keep the Linux webservers
pure from MS influence and flexible. We won't advertise frontpage, but if
someone really wants it, we will put them on the new server.
98% of people don't need frontpage. Microsoft wants it to be like 98% of
people need frontpage. Once you make your website dependant on frontpage
with their extensions, it's a TOTAL PITA to stop using frontpage and move
to another program like pagemill or pico or something.
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