FrontPage on Apache

[Aaron Grewell]

It's been a couple of years, but I did make this work once.  The
implementation was awful, but seemed to work once up and running.  Note
that FPSE for non-windows platforms is EOL in 2006, so you may be able
to use that to shift your customer (or at least get them to think about
it).  The ready-to-run version was the only one that worked for me, the
one MS ships with its CD's is worthless.  It was built circa RH 7.x or
so.  Also, I found their distro requirements to be pretty set in stone.
Getting it to work outside the environment they compiled it for was very
difficult.  You may have some luck with compat libs, but I wouldn't put
too much stock in them.  Like all other MS interop tools, this one was
designed as a migration tool, not something they intended to maintain.

http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/end-of-life.htm on the end-of-life issue

The latest FPSE from RTR is here:
http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/fp2002sr1_download.htm


Good luck.

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:27 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I've been fighting with this montrous POS, but a good customer (who
> should know better) likes to create his hideous web sites with this
> garbage.
> 
> Trying to get FrontPage Circus extensions running.  I just can't seem
> to find the recipe.  Last try I got apache errors about:  shtml.exe
> having root permissions or some such, and attempts to access the
> FPadmin.exe on the FP admin port yielded location errors.
> 
> Is it possible to actually get M$ anything to work at all (correctly
> would be better, but at this point I'll take anything).
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David A. Bandel