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From: cmakin@gadget.nla.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Frontpage and FreeBSD 2.1.0
Date: 2 Oct 1996 03:31:07 GMT
Organization: National Library of Australia
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Message-ID: <52snlr$16ol@widow.nla.gov.au>
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In article <52rr7b$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.
Carl.
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