From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 13:09:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3234416A41F for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:09:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BD043D53 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:09:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j93D97Bn024981; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:09:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j93D97oQ024980; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:09:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200510031309.j93D97oQ024980@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tedm@toybox.placo.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:09:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Front Page extensions ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:09:08 -0000 > > > We do it on Solaris not on FreeBSD, but it's no big deal - we put all > the FP users on a single server and everyone else on a server > without FP loaded. After all if the FP server gets hacked due to > FP extensions, what is the customer going to say? They demanded > the FP extensions in the first place! > > Keep in mind also that a great many FP users that THINK they need > FP extensions on the webserver in actuality DO NOT. Microsoft does > a lot of work to blur the two because they know that some ignorant > people will actually go lay out the coin for a Windows server just to > run FP. But our observation is the vast majority of users use FP > as a page-creation program and never use any of the FP extensions, > or simply use very basic ones like a web-to-email page that can > easily be duplicated with CGI. If you teach them to use FTP from > Front Page to upload their pages, rather than Microsoft's icky > proprietary thing, they are just as happy either way. > Ted Exactly right. Basically we do the same and usually after a while they drop the MS server and consolidate on the UNIX (FreeBSD) server without Front Page. ////jerry