[plug] frontpage

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:55:09PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> About 5 months ago or so I sent an email to PLUG in regards to 
> frontpage extensions for apache and as I never recieved a reply and the 
> issue is still on going, I thought I would ask again in case someone 
> has info they didn't have before.
> 
> Anyways I have a linux server that was at one stage running apache with 
> frontpage. Since then this server needed to be rebuilt and the 
> web-pages were copied across to the new server. During this move the 
> websites are no longer where they originally were and for the sake of 
> argument they can't be. I have installed the debian frontpage modules 
> package and have it running in apache.
> 
> What I need to know is how to go about getting these existing websites 
> working again with the frontpage extensions? Is there a script or 
> something that needs to be run over an existing website to give it 
> frontpage powers?
> 
> Any info would be appreciated,


Ewwww the dark arts of frontpage.

Basically tou need to
a) remove all frontpage info from all the webs.
   rm -rf ${WEB_ROOT}/_private
   rm -rf ${WEB_ROOT}/_vti*
   rm -rf ${WEB_ROOT}/postinfo.html
   find -type d -name _vti_cnf -print0 | xargs -0 -n16 rm -rf 
   find -type f -name .htaccess -print0 | xargs -0 -n16 rm -rf 
b) with the new fpadmin commandline tool "extend" each web
c) on the client, kill all web shortcuts
d) on the client reconnect to the server.


Fraontpage is apain to deal with and I've been using it on Linux since
v1.1  I hate it.  It's a crappy environment and a crappy client.

If the above steps don't work then you'll need to play along those lines
until you can get them working.

sorry I can't be of anymore help.

Yours Tony

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