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abrogard -> Where' s Perl? Php? How about the Logs? (11/2/2002 23:32:12)

I am very new to Frontpage. Still at the stage of trying to understand what it does and how it does it and what you can do with it...

I' ve got it working and I' ve imported existing sites and published back to them and whatnot... I' m making progress... but:

When I import a site with index.html as the homepage (which Apache requires) it then publishes it back there as index.htm !!! Is this right?

When I try to test my site with Preview the Perl scripts won' t work, though the C progs do. Should they work? And I' ll be using PHP soon, too... should that work?

The log file shows what happened in the last publish but it doesn' t seem to keep any history... is this right?

regards... abrogard.



abbeyvet -> RE: Where' s Perl? Php? How about the Logs? (11/3/2002 7:01:44)

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When I try to test my site with Preview the Perl scripts won' t work, though the C progs do. Should they work? And I' ll be using PHP soon, too... should that work?


Perl and PHP will only work on a server.

If you have a local server (not PWS) you could install them, but I have always found it just as convenient to test scripts on the actual server to which they will be published.


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When I import a site with index.html as the homepage (which Apache requires) it then publishes it back there as index.htm !!! Is this right?


I am not aware that this has happened to me. What version of FP are you using?


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The log file shows what happened in the last publish but it doesn' t seem to keep any history... is this right?


Can' t help here either, never looked at them! Sorry.




abrogard -> RE: Where' s Perl? Php? How about the Logs? (11/4/2002 1:10:26)


Thankyou for the reply. Kilkenny? That' s a wonderful beer if I' ve remembered the name right.

You find it just as convenient? You are developing something and you find it just as convenient to go to the live site to test parts of it?

I' d like to know your methodology.. that' s be a recipe for frustration and problems for me.


So it begins to look as though FrontPage Preview is in no way a preview of how things behave (oh, well, in a small way it is, okay) but is just a preview of the appearance of one page. That right? It is as simple as that?

I' ve got another question on the same topic, too - in Preview if I click a link I go to the next page alright, but then I can' t get back! Is that right? That' s normal behaviour?

I' ll start a new thread for that because I' ve got another problem, too.

regards abrogard [:)]



abbeyvet -> RE: Where' s Perl? Php? How about the Logs? (11/4/2002 4:48:41)

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You find it just as convenient?


Um, Yes. Possibly because it is all I have ever done.

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I' d like to know your methodology.. that' s be a recipe for frustration and problems for me.


I just have an FTP client or Putty open all the time, upload files as I alter them and test them as I go. Often I edit them on the server for convenience. It was a pain on a dial-up soemtimes as the connection was slow and prone to dropping, but I have cable now with a reliably fast connection speed and I am happy enough doing that.

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in Preview if I click a link I go to the next page alright, but then I can' t get back! Is that right?


You can go back by right clicking and selecting ' Back' . However really that is just a quick tool for checking appearance and preview in browser is more useful. For one thing the FP preview tells you nothing about what is going on in anything other than IE.

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Kilkenny? That' s a wonderful beer if I' ve remembered the name right.


It certainly is. Cheers! [:D][:p]




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