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Hello all.  Sorry if this is a easy question.  I am going to be setting up a
Intranet site.  The manager wants to use frontpage....I want to put the site
on a Sun Box running apache, but I am not sure if I can use frontpage to
manage the site as well as publish to it, as I could with IIS.  Is this

Thanks for the help......
Paul Yahnig

AFAIK FP extensions will "work" on most flavours of UNIX, that is if FP
ever works.

Quote:>  Is this
> possible?

Yes, and see the docs at www.microsoft.com about the FP server extensions
resource kit, and also www.rtr.com which is a useful lot.

NO.  You post to usenet, you read it on usenet.  We are not free technical
support.

Alex.

SHORT ANSWER
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Yes, just get FP Server Extension for <your Web server> on <your version
of UNIX>. Supported are Apache, Netscape Enterprize Server, Netscape
FastTrack Server, Cern. Supported UNIXes are Sun, SGI, DEC, HP,
Linux,...

LONG ANSWER
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Well, I've seen FP-SE and it really scared me away. I think I'm more
willing to open FTP upload than putting that piece of *on my server.

What's the problem? Well, Apache for Digital UNIX (compiled package,
with docs and everything) is 2.6 MBytes. FP-SE for Apache on Digital
UNIX is 14.3 MBytes. (Yes, you read it right, four* MB).

What's in it? Well, it is not just for publishing, but "Web Site
administration, User administration, etc." It also has the ability to
publish to other servers...

To me, it looked overbloated, omnipotent and simply scary. I like
Apache, but not MS solution. I preffer simple solutions. HTTP has a
method for publishing - PUT (as opposed to GET). Unfortunately, it is
widely unused. Apache doesn't have it out-of-the-box, you have to write
a (sort of) CGI-like program that will handle PUT requests or load a
contributory put_module.

Well, I haven't seen many Web Authoring tools that support PUT
(AOLpress, Netscape Communicator, Amaya), but I'm definitely not putting
FP-SE on our web server.

Nix.
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