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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:08:10 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        "Hank Wethington" <bsd@info-logix.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Apache with Frontpage
Message-ID:  <00062721091600.01060@dannyh.freebsd.org>
References:  <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIAEDKCGAA.bsd@info-logix.com>

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Just provide other cgi's and php solutions instread of using the front page
extensions.

But from memory don't you need to have the maxiumum of Apache_1.3.6 to run the
front page extensions?


On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Hank Wethington wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> OK, after many hours of trying to figure out errors, using different ports,
> and changing configure files just trying to get Frontpage extensions
> installed, I am left frustrated and wondering whether it would just be
> easier to buy win2k and run them from there. Now that my rant is over, I'm
> hoping someone here has words of wisdom for a lost soul who doesn't want to
> convert to the dark-side.
> 
> First some machine specific stuff.
> FreeBSD 4.0 release (3 day old install)
> dual (currently single) PII400 w/256 mb ram running as a web server for a
> company that will get approx 500 hits per day. (not much I know).
> 
> OK, now I've had apache running many times, and it even (at one time) ran on
> this machine with no problems. I am now trying to get frontpage set up and
> it get various make errors. First after setting up the computer I used the
> /usr/ports/www/apache13-fp port. I have never gotten past this error:
> 
> ===>  Patching for apache_fp-1.3.12
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for apache_fp-1.3.12
> Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch.
> 4 out of 4 hunks ignored--saving rejects to configure.rej
> *** Error code 4
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13-fp.
> *** Error code 1
> (I can supply the rej file if needed)
> 
> So I go and clean things up. Do some research. See a nice package spoken
> about at freebsddiary, grab the package and try to install. Apache gets
> going ok, with ssl. PHP3 and PHP4 install with very few problems, but
> wouldn't you know it, frontpage appears to install, but I go to do the
> fp_install.sh and it can't find the tar files anywhere. *I* can't find the
> tar files anywhere. If I say keep the current vti directories, it errors
> (sorry I didn't write this one down)
> 
> So I try another port. This one supposedly with PHP, SSL, and FP all ready
> to go... the PHP portion dies, never get to see if FP will make it.
> 
> So I clean things up ONE MORE TIME and go back to the beginning, and guess
> what. Get the same things. So here I am, left wondering if frontpage is
> supposed to work on FreeBSD (I know it does, many of you have said so), but
> I just don't know what to do next.
> 
> If any of you have some ideas or if you have a gun I can borrow :) please
> let me know. I do check this list but a cc to me would also help.
> 
> Thanks, and if you made it this far, you deserve a beer,
> 
> Hank Wethington
> Information Logistics
> 
> 
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