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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.139.252.5!newsreader.com!not-for-mail From: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MS Frontpage Ext. for FreeBSD? Date: 29 Mar 1997 22:20:32 GMT Organization: KCW Consulting Lines: 42 Message-ID: <I2O$A0@NewsReader.Com> References: <333c6d86.7784747@snews2.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: h4.kcwc.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38008 stephen@lainet.com (Stephen) wrote: > Does anybody have any experiences installing Microsoft FrontPage > extensions on a FreeBSD 2.1.5 running Apache 1.2? I'm doing it. But, to be honest, I don't remember what version of the extensions I installed. It wasn't for FreeBSD. It probably was for BSDI. If you check out the FrontPage extensions FAQ, you will find info about FreeBSD. I remember two problems. The first is that FreeBSD has a different version of crypt (using MD5 instead of the normal Unix version). This breaks passwords, and means that you can't log into the server (password rejected). This is talked about in the FrontPage faqs. The qucick and dirty fix, is to just cut and paste a password out of the FreeBSD password file into the FrontPage file which stores the user's passwords. This allows you to log in, but you can't change your password using FrontPage. The real fix is to get a normal Unix version of crypt and recompile something. I never bothered to figure this out. Was it the Apache server that needed to be recompiled? Or was it the front page software that was dynamically linked with the freebsd libs? I don't know. The other problem I had was related to the fact that I was using the Stronghold version of the Apache server. The config files for Stronhold have /dev/null for some include files and this confused FrontPage when it tried to write some new config commands to /dev/null. Changing those links to real files fixed that problem. I've never really tested all the fancy server-side features of Frontpage with this config (because I don't really want to use them), but all the basic site control and maintenance works great. I love FrontPage! Curt Welch http://CurtWelch.Com/