FrontPage Extension Install

[Brian Densmore]

Ok, I should have spoken my gut before. I feared as much.
You're running Linux. You installed M$ windows version FrontPage
extensions. Not good. You need to go out and the -=Linux=- version 
of FrontPage extensions. There are howtos out there to tell you how to
do it. I have yet to do it. Although, I will be adding it soon.

What you need to do:

First you need to reinstall apache from the RedHat CD.
Second go out and get the Linux version of apache FrontPage extensions.
Third try again.

I'd be glad to help more, but you will have to wait until next week.
I'll be a little bit tied up for the rest of the week. Wifey has a big
birthday, so I can't even go near a PC at home for several days. :(

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Dimbert [mailto:s.dimbert at fhmr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:50 PM
> To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: FrontPage Extension Install
> 
> 
> OK - I've managed to pooch httpd.
> 
> >:-(
> 
> Some history:
> 1 - I am not a very knowledgeable user.
> 2 - I got RedHat 7.0 from a book from the library and installed it.
> 3 - I did not, in any way, customize my installation. I 
> simply took what it
> gave me.
> 4 - I peeked into #/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and found that 
> httpd wanted me
> to put webpages in #/var/www/html, so I did.
> 5 - That worked. When I pointed my web browser to the machines IP
> (192.168.1.10), things worked fine (meaning that the pages loaded).
> 6 - I even figured out how to use Perl to run scripts in 
> #/var/www/cgi-bin.
> 7 - I use FrontPage to build the site and wanted to use a 
> mail-back form. I
> could do that, if I installed FrontPage Server Extensions.
> 8 - I visited Microsoft's page, "How to install FrontPage 
> Server Extensions
> to an Apache Web Server
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q202198) and
> followed the instructions there, installing two files into #/usr/local
> (fp_install.sh and fp50.linux.tar.Z).
> 9 - Today, with help from all of you, I tried to follow those 
> instructions.
> At first the install script told me that it could not work 
> because httpd was
> busy. So, thanks to Jeremy's help, I killed the http daemon 
> and tried the
> install script again.
> 10 - This time it failed because it said there was already a 
> root web...
> somewhere. I was lost by the end.
> 
> I am sorry that I can't give you any more/better information, 
> but that's all
> I know. I am - in truth - in over my head here.
> 
> If you could help me, here's what I want. I want someone to 
> tell me how to:
> A - find the "right" version of Apache.
> B - find the "right" version of the FrontPage Server Extensions
> C - install them both, erasing what is there, if necessary.
> 
> What do you all say?
> 
> -SD
> 
> 
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