Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:36:02 -0500 From: "Andy Smith" <asmith@ai2a.net> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Front Page BSDi Server Extensions Message-ID: <199605240334.WAA23110@ai2a.net>
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>From Andy Smith, webmaster@ai2a.net David Clark's FreeBSD Server I know you folks are busy, but there's something I'd like for you to look into, if you would. Microsoft Front Page is software that will allow web authors to design a complete website over the Internet without FTP, Telnet, and learning CGI scripting. It is quite powerful, and simple to use. The URL is as follows: http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage They already have a BSDi/OS 2.0 (or some version like that).These server extensions *should* allow the webmaster to install processes that run as CGI scripts from the server, and they will coordinate information from the server. In attempting to install the extensions, I received a 'broken segment' error, and a core dump. I am not certain of the relationship between BSDi and FreeBSD. Please look into these extensions, as they would greatly help us server our ai2a.net users with writing web pages. And it would very much assist me as webmaster. Even if the extensions *did* work, there is still a problem. The extensions want to run under the process id of the server, which we have is user 'nobody' for obvious reasons. Front Page *does* ask for the user name and 'a' password. If you would, if you could, I'd like to have the server extensions work in such a fashion that when a user starts with Front Page, it will start a fork running under the PID of the user who logs on with Front Page. Then the user can do whatever that person's heart desires **in their user subdirectory** without risk of dorking things under the 'nobody' process, or getting into one another's web section under the group ID of 'frontpage' where we to follow the instructions. Please, please please check into this, as I believe it will extend the usefulness of a great OS platform. If I can be of any assistance in this matter, I would be glad to do so. But I'm telling you this product is going to be out for $100, and small businesses will be buying it expecting to be able to use it. I'd like for us to have Front Page up and running under our FreeBSD/ Apache combination, where we can promote our ISP through the low-cost, great web services we provide. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. Andy Smith
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