FC3, Apache, and Front Page

[Rick Stevens]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 11:24 -0800, Mark Eggers wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:37 -0500, Randy L. Justice wrote:
>>
>>>Can the Apache web server on FC3 be used to serve FrontPage html
>>>sites?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>First of all, I'm not sure why you would want to do this.
>>
> 
> Because there is simply no easier and faster way to get a decent
> looking, secure site up and running. I know - I should learn HTML. I
> should learn perl, c and a bunch of other stuff as well. Actually, I use
> quanta for adjustments and fixes so that's helping me learn.

FrontPage is not any more secure than any other HTML editor.  All FP
does is give you a GUI development environment with a quasi-SourceSafe
upload capacity.  Quanta is good, and there's a ton of other decent
GUI-based website design packages out there that need nothing more than
FTP upload capacity on the server to post your stuff.  Stick with them.

Speaking as one of the incredibly stupid few that have done the patches
and crap to make Apache work with FP, I can tell you that it is an
unholy, farking nightmare to set up and make work properly.  If you
aren't a skilled programmer, don't even TRY to do it.  I've been doing
this stuff for 30 years and _I_ get brain cramps with it.

In fact, Apache/FP is so hard to maintain that we dropped it as a
product over 18 months ago--and we made some decent money with it.  For
us to drop a revenue source indicates that it really is a right b*stard
to manage.
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