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FrontPage Server Extensions for Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the avoid-vendor-lockin dept.

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?"

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  1. power of choice by sofar · · Score: 4, Insightful


    use the power of choice: change ISP's

    1. Re:power of choice by jmt9581 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The OP said he'd buy Frontpage if it were available for his platform, but he won't spend the meager amount of money to find a decent webhost? That's ridiculous, I think that a (legal) version fo Office would cost at least $100, which should be more than a year of hosting from a decent webhost.

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  2. You have GOT to be kidding me by toygeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You want to use the frontpage extensions, OUTSIDE OF FRONTPAGE? Tell you what, go get a .22, and shoot yourself in the foot. It'll be more productive.

    I have the unfortunate "pleasure" of supporting the Frontpage extensions on about 40 production web hosting servers. They are *horrible*. I mean *HORRIBLE*. When they work, they work fine, but then they quit working, it sometimes takes wiping out a clients site, reinstalling the extensions, and then having them re-publish from *scratch*. Oh yeah, great stuff there.

    Do yourself a favor and use a few PHP or Perl scripts do do what you need to do. There's nothing in Frontpage that can't be done in PHP or Perl. Its NOT that great. Heck I've done prettier, more functional sites using shtml and php.

    Just reading this post makes me feel like I'm watching a bad horror movie and the main character is about to enter the room where the axe murderer is waiting, and everybody in the audience KNOWS there's an axe murderer. "DONT GO IN THERE!" somebody shouts.

    Remember, Friends don't let friends use Frontpage.

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  3. you would buy it ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    then why not buy it and run it under crossover office on linux. Its un-supported but it may work.

  4. Re:$10 says... by globalar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The function phpinfo() can be disabled at build time or via directive in php.ini, httpd.conf, or .htaccess. This is not uncommon on production machines which don't "officially" support php. Always try print/echo before you give up.