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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Frontpage and FreeBSD 2.1.0 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:17:04 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32523310.193F@www.play-hookey.com> References: <52rr7b$ngf@steinlager.tip.net> <52snlr$16ol@widow.nla.gov.au> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Carl Makin wrote: > > In article <52rr7b$ngf@steinlager.tip.net>, > astrom@interact.se (Patrik Astrom) writes: > > > Can i run Ms Frontpage Server extensions with my FreeBSD 2.1.0 system > > and Apache 1.1.1 ??.. What do i need ?, and how to i doit ? > > The BSDI binaries for Frontpage 1.1 work fine under 2.1.0 and 2.1.5. > Just follow the Installation instructions. Frontpage REQUIRES write > access to your entire web tree though. I have been able to make it work > using group based permissions rather than making everything owned by > the Frontpage user. > > There is one big gotcha. Frontpage generates the password using DES. > You will either need the FreeBSD DES distribution (untested) or manually > create the Frontpage passwords (which are really web server passwords) and > put them where Frontpage expects to see them in; > > "<doc root>/_vti_pvt/service.pwd" > > I used the "htpasswd" utility from Apache to create the MD5 based passwords > and then just copied the output into the "service.pwd" file. Worked fine > first try. > > A small gotcha that is mentioned in the install docs is that Frontpage, > by default, creates web pages with the extension ".htm" instead of ".html". > Since the Frontpage editor ONLY works under Win95 or WinNT which both have > extended filenames I cannot understand this stupid limitation but you will > have to make sure Apache will recognise .htm as a valid extension. > To do that, edit the mime.types file in <http-root>/server/conf -- near the bottom add htm to the text/html line. Otherwise, you can rename all extensions to .html . If you don't do either one, .htm files will go out as plain text. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |