Front Page extensions ???

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Mon Oct 3 03:25:26 PDT 2005


We do it on Solaris not on FreeBSD, but it's no big deal - we put all
the FP users on a single server and everyone else on a server
without FP loaded.  After all if the FP server gets hacked due to
FP extensions, what is the customer going to say?  They demanded
the FP extensions in the first place!

Keep in mind also that a great many FP users that THINK they need
FP extensions on the webserver in actuality DO NOT.  Microsoft does
a lot of work to blur the two because they know that some ignorant
people will actually go lay out the coin for a Windows server just to
run FP.  But our observation is the vast majority of users use FP
as a page-creation program and never use any of the FP extensions,
or simply use very basic ones like a web-to-email page that can
easily be duplicated with CGI.  If you teach them to use FTP from
Front Page to upload their pages, rather than Microsoft's icky
proprietary thing, they are just as happy either way.

Ted

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>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of David
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:44 AM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Front Page extensions ???
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>
>Hi,
>
>I am an ISP. A customer of mine is asking for FP extensions for his
>website. I try to avoid MS products whenever possible. I find them to be
>either a security or tech support nightmare. But I don't want
>to lose this
>customer if possible.
>
>Can any of you ISP's share your experience with FP on FreeBSD
>with me? Is
>it a security or tech support problem for you?
>
>Thanks,
>David
>
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