Very Computer

I would like to start using Frontpage extensions, but the server has no
sources and development environment. Therefore I cannot recompile Apache.

Who has a Apache httpd binary for Suse 7.2 that is compiled with the
Frontpage extensions?
Version 1.3.19 for i386.

Frank

You'd better download the new sources from www.apache.org and recompile.
Davide

As I mentioned before, recompilation is not possible. The server is not
capable to do it.
That's the whole problem.

Probably the only solution is to build a new server with software
development tools installed.

Frank

YOU may not be... the server definitely is.

Quote:> That's the whole problem.

> Probably the only solution is to build a new server with software
> development tools installed.

Build a new server ? That sounds like the hard way to do it...

Why not just *install* gcc and all the rest ?

All it'll cost you is HD space - about 300 megs all told.

What is so special about this SuSe system that you can not install gcc ?

Now *that*'s weird...

J

Security?  Quite possibly, the powers that own that platform don't want
development tools on a machine which is exposed to the evil world....

A reasonable approach, except at times like this.  Of course, requesting
a binary from unknown sources kind of compromises the whole security
thing....

-Dondo

There is not much disk/memory space and I do not even have physical access
to the machine. All I got is a dial-up connection with telnet/ftp and that's
it.
The machine is quite heavily used, so installing 300 MB with the risk it
runs out of disk space is the way of bringing it down to it's knees.

Captain Dondo has a very good point with his remark about accepting a binary
from an unknown source. This is certainly not the way to go either. That
leaves me nothing else than building a duplicate system.

If you are using telnet or ftp the machine has been cracked - the password
goes in the clear across the net! Surely you mean ssh. But anyway, ssh
is all you need.

Quote:> The machine is quite heavily used, so installing 300 MB with the risk it
> runs out of disk space is the way of bringing it down to it's knees.

If it's heavily used then it has disk space (or what are they using?).
300MB is a tiny amount - less than 1% of the smallest disk you can buy
nowadays. But to compile stuff you should be able to get away with less
than 100MB easily!

Quote:> Captain Dondo has a very good point with his remark about accepting a binary
> from an unknown source. This is certainly not the way to go either. That
> leaves me nothing else than building a duplicate system.

Why? You can use nfs to mount a development environmnent on your
server (in /usr/local) and compile there - compilation takes no
noticable resources, especially if done with nice.

Peter

Agree. If you are paying for this job then they $hafted you big time!
40 Gigs costs nothing these days, not for you , not for a webhost.
Unless what you actually *have* is 4-disk RAID 5 at 15000 rpm...
That stuff costs a fortune.

Quote:>>Captain Dondo has a very good point with his remark about accepting a binary
>>from an unknown source. This is certainly not the way to go either. That
>>leaves me nothing else than building a duplicate system.

Can SuSe use rpm's ?
Then just get some from rpmfind.net - hardly an "unknown source"...

Quote:> compilation takes no noticable resources,

heh - your next project should be Gentoo ;-)

J