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andrewtsmith
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Is FrontPage this Bad? - 5/7/2007 20:00:00
All of a sudden, I have been having problems publishing to a FrontPage Website. I was getting an "httpd.conf" error.
The hosting company is a well known brand. I will not mention their name at this stage. They sent me the following reply. I know FrontPage is nearing the end of its life. But is it this bad?
They said:
"FP2003 does not have much documentation and this makes it more difficult for us to handle. We suggest using an older version of FP as it is better documented, but even still it is unsupported by Microsoft themselves. With a program with so many problems, there is a wide array of issues that could be possible and so we try to eliminate the most common first. Please understand that we offer support for FrontPage on a very limited support basis.
Note that with FP2003, you may have to reinstall the extensions after you publish a site or after a certain amount of time. Please make sure this is done periodically to ensure minimal downtime to your sites. "
Best regards
Andrew Smith
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caz
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RE: Is FrontPage this Bad? - 5/7/2007 20:28:56
As far as I can see this is not a windows server, but Apache so you might like to suggest that your host looks at this from MS,
FP extensions on Apache
I use FP2003 on a Windows server and have never been told to reinstall extensions periodically; yes, they can go bad for unknown reasons, but that has been very rare in my experience. Then again my host understand what they are doing  As for reverting to an older version of FP, I have never heard such piffle. Tell them that they have to apply the FPSE to individual webs as well as uninstall/reinstalling.
If BobbyD is around I am sure that he will give you some very good server advice, but for my part I would be looking for a new, better informed host.
Cheers
Carol
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BobbyDouglas
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RE: Is FrontPage this Bad? - 5/8/2007 0:15:18
Two options: 1) Ask your host to re-install the FPSE. 2) As caz suggested, find a new host that is more familiar with FPSE - there are a TON of hosts around.
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I know FrontPage is nearing the end of its life.
- FrontPage has already been declared EOL (end of life), which means it will no longer be updated. cPanel, one of the more popular control panel programs for linux, will continue to include FPSE in their control panel until an issue with it is found. I looked for past security issues with FPSE on linux, and never really found much in the past year or so. It seems like most of the security issues related to FPSE are on windows boxes, as opposed to linux. I only spent about 30 minutes looking around for past/current FPSE security issues, so I might not be 100% accurate.
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montyauto
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RE: Is FrontPage this Bad? - 6/25/2007 6:19:04
I would prefer manual editor.
Notepad, JediEdit, Notepad++.
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