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FrontPage Server Extensions for Unix?
beetle496 asks: "Okay, so I didn't research my choice of ISP adequately. Despite running Apache 2.0 on Red Hat, the only option for dynamic content they support is FrontPage Server Extensions. I am quite comfortable with X/HTML and CSS, and am okay with JavaScript. I am annoyed enough that I would buy FrontPage, were it available for my preferred platform. I've performed the customary MSDN and Google searches. The best I came up with was a page on FrontPage UNIX Server Extensions, which sounds exactly on target, but didn't help me. Can anyone point me toward a resource on writing HTML code to make use of FPSE (aka, webbot) -- without using FrontPage?"
...makes me shudder.
yep, change ISPs.
Web standards are scary enough without adding yet another layer of, "more to go wrong".
If running Linux or BSD on your server isn't an option, then running Apache on Cygwin should work.
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This seems pretty straight forward to me.
Perhaps you should find a new ISP since your current one is using obsolete software.
Adelphia: 10MB space, and not much is allowed (no .EXEs, for example) - the only dynamic content is FP extensions. (this is according to TFA)
Freeshell: $36 ONE TIME, 100MB web space (also 100MB shell and 100MB mailbox), Perl, PHP, and Python ALL supported for dynamic content, and you can put almost anything in your webspace.
Which sounds like the better idea?
As other people have mentioned, FPSE is obsolete. Today, you are supposed to use client-side dynamic (webbot, DTC, add-in) or more modern server-side dynamic (ASP) techniques. A lot of things including navigation can be handled design-time, reply or email if you're interested in that topic. I do everything design-time; it's my preferred method, and FP2003 is my preferred tool.
However you can still use a webbot for server-side dynamic behavior. Visit MSDN and download the Frontpage 2002 SDK. Don't worry, it's not outdated. The extensibility models haven't changed between versions.
With a perl script, it's the same as a standard CGI script as described on MSDN. Look for the example \FPSDK\Files\WebBot\wbtest4 in the SDK. If you prefer to use a DLL or shared library, use the BeginWebBotExpand macro which lets you access the bot attributes. In either case, you're going to build a BTL file and call the webbot from HTML like:
The SDK describes the four ways a webbot can activate. Try to test things client-side first, it's a lot easier. If your webbot fails it will just insert a generic [FrontPage Component name] on the page. Doublecheck the logs in _vti_pvt for the logs, to get hint why things are failing.
It's oldschool, it works, and it's a simple variant on CGI scripting. Again, for simple things like navigation bars it's a heck of a lot easier to use a design-time dynamic control (client-side webbot, DTC, or add-in). I strongly recommend you consider those instead.
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The problem is his host supposedly doesn't allow any dynamic content except javascript and FrontPage. PHP/etc. won't work.
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