Installing frontpage doesn't create shtml.exe

Scot W. Hetzel hetzelsw at westbend.net
Thu Jan 15 07:57:18 PST 2004


From: "Justin Hopper" <jhopper at bsdhosting.net>
> Check your error_log (both the vhost log and main Apache log, if you
> have vhosts configured) for the FrontPage-specific error.  I remember
> there was some specific problem related to shtml.exe that often came up,
> but I can't remember what it was.  If you can find an error log entry,
> that may refresh my memory on the solution.
>
To refresh your memory, the problem with shtml.exe (unix only) was that
sometimes a request would hit the server for shtml.dll (windows only).  Code
was added to mod_frontpage to intercept requests for shtml.dll and redirect
it to shtml.exe.

Scot



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