Installing
This chapter describes how to install FrontPage98 support in your
Challenger server.
Apart from an installed Challenger server, you will need
FrontPage98 extensions for your operating system, they can be
downloaded from RTR, http://www.rtr.com/.
FrontPage98 may not be supported on all platforms that Roxen supports.
The process of installing FrontPage98 support in a Roxen server is
as follows:
- Install the FrontPage98 extensions on your system, in the directory
/usr/local/frontpage, using the script included with it. If
the program asks if you want to install root web,
sub/per-user webs or virtual webs, say no. This can be
installed later.
- Create a directory where FrontPage can store its files. The
directory is called Document Root further on.
- Add the FrontPage Script support module to the
virtual server where you want FrontPage support. Configure the module
variables as follows:
- FrontPage/Document Root
-
specifies where the FrontPage
webs are located in the file system.
- Run script as
-
specifies which user to run the
FrontPage scripts as. The user needs read and write privileges in the
Document Root directory.
- Add a Filesystem-module and configure the module
variable Search Path to point to the document root
directory.
- Create the FrontPage98 configuration file. This is done via the
addfp98.pike script that can be found in the
roxen/tools/ directory. The syntax of the script is
described below:
pike addfp98.pike -d <domain> -l <login>
-p <passwd> -r <document-root>
[--port=<port>]
- -d <domain>
-
The host and domain name of the
server.
- -l <login>
-
The login name to be used to edit
pages with FrontPage clients.
- -p <passwd>
-
The password to be used to edit
pages with FrontPage clients.
- -r <document-root>
-
The location in the file
system where FrontPage webs are stored.
- --port=<port>
-
The port number of the server.
Example
pike addfp98.pike -d www.roxen.com -l www -p gazonk
-r /usr/local/frontpage/content
The administrator will have to use the fpsrvadm.exe
utility in the FrontPage98 extensions distribution to create, delete,
and rename subwebs; Challenger's FrontPage98 support does not support
these operations through the FrontPage clients.
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