[plug] RE: Frontpage Server Extensions

[Trevor Phillips]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
> But does anyone know of any open source alternatives?  The two things
> that Frontpage + FP Server Extensions can do that no open source
> product that I am aware of can do are:
> 
> (a)     Easy remote editing of files.

For this, we use Samba (for PC Clients) and CAP (for Macs). We have a separate
Development and Production environment, where Dev has an account for each
content provider, with write access to their area. They then use our in-house
Publishing tool to publish docs to prod once they're ready. We also have FTP
available for External people.

The PUT method intrigues me, and I think it'd be great if it was supported by a
good Apache module and accompanying Client tools...

> (b)     Automatic generation of navigation buttons etc.

There's standard SSI's. We're starting to use my own Dynamic Web-Templates
system, too, for this sort of thing (plus more).

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