Re: [SLUG] FrontPage Extensions

[Jack Olszewski <jacek@nospam.hermes.net.au>]

Howard Lowndes <lannet@nospam.lannet.com.au> wrote on  Tue, 27 Jun 2000 
20:13:56 +1000 (EST):
>
>I'm trying to get FPE installed on Apache.
>
>I have gone back to apache 1.3.3 cos thats the version that FPE4.0 want to
>use.
>
>I can get the install script fp_install.sh to run, but when it asks for
>the Administrator name it does not ask for the password to go with that
>name.  Despite that it seems to install correctly and it is accessible
>from the FP client, but it cannot be admin'ed to allow the setup of new
>webs, seemingly because the admin password is missing.
>
>Looking at the install script there is a subroutine called
>getpassword() which would prompt for the password, only problem is, it
>never gets called.
>
>If anyone has any experience in this field could they offer some assist on
>getting this sucker installed properly, pse.
>
>...and I don't want to hear about "don't use it"...its not an option.
>(8-(.
>
>- -- 
>Howard.
>______________________________________________________
>LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>

After my own pretty bad and frustrating experience with FPE as well as
learning about similar experiences of others from various news groups
and faqs, I have gone for mod_frontpage, 
http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/~chripo/ . I've managed to patch
apache 1.3.12 accordingly and compile it with mod_frontpage and
mod_ssl. Now, it seems to run alright. 

That way you can avoid various pitfalls of FPE, including fp_install.sh.

Cheers,

Jack
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