From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 12 20:27:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17621 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17616 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:27:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01213; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:26:54 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980613132650.15586@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:26:51 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Donald Burr Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: front page? [was: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for?] References: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Donald Burr on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 02:28:30PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 02:28:30PM -0700, Donald Burr wrote: > So they bought my roommate a copy of FrontPage, because that way she could > edit it herself, graphically. Unfortunately, none of us knew that > FrontPage needed special extensions on the web server. And also, > unfortunately, our service provider was unwilling to put them on their web > server. So I figured out a rather nice workaround, thanks to Scot > Hetzel's Apache-with-FrontPage port, which obviously came in very handy. > I setup my webserver as a FrontPage server -- my roommate would edit the > pages on it. I set up a periodic cron job that would upload the complete > set of web pages to the ISP, using ftp. This works out extremely well. Huh? This sounds interesting but I can't visualise what it actually does. It sounds like it's not a server with FrontPage extensions but with something else instead. Can you describe what it does a little more? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message