Accessing Frontpage-based servers

Ben Sewell ben_sewell_007 at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 17 08:59:19 UTC 2004


Hi,
why not use SSH (SFTP) to transfer files over? Eg an linux equilivent of 
WinSCP3?

just a thought, as this is what I do.

Ben

>From: Kyrian <kyrian at ore.org>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Accessing Frontpage-based servers
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:22:37 +0100
>
>
> >
> > From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb at eskimo.com>
> > To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> > Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > <redhat-list at redhat.com> Subject: Accessing Frontpage-based servers
> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:45:09 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > I'm trying to do some updates for a client, but their server is
> > running Frontpage Extensions instead of FTP or even WebDAV.  Is there
> > a way to connect to an FP server to make updates from Linux?
> >
><delurk>
>
>Nope, not directly, but ISTR you might be able to download the (free)
>"FrontPage Express" and coax it to work under Wine on Linux. Newer
>versions are, well, not free.
>
>Your best course of action is probably to download the site using wget,
>LART the client, and fix the site using a proper editor, taking care to
>ensure that any email addresses frontpage may have secreted about the
>place are encoded using a suitable tool for spam prevention purposes.
>
>If there are any references to anything in _vti_bin, leave them be, as
>they are frontpage extensions executable references for eg. hit counters
>etc. The java(script?) classes that FP uses should be okay, though.
>
>Once you've re-uploaded the site, it may be necessary to get the ISP to
>do a server-side "recalculate links" on the site, or even remove and
>reinstate FP extensions on there to stop it being confused.
>
>You really are better off sorting the client out, than trying to deal
>with this stuff. Trust me, I know from bitter experience. Google if
>you're interested.
>
><lurk>
>
>K.
>
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