FrontPage Extensions
I’ve been mucking around with FrontPage Extensions for a while now. Wow. What a POS. First step was to adapt the module so it runs under Apache 2.2. The rest of the steps involved a lot of cursing.
- FrontPage only reads/writes its configuration to /usr/local/frontpage.
- FrontPage expects all of VirtualHosts to be defined in httpd.conf.
- FrontPage expects srm.conf and access.conf to exist (but doesn’t seem to need them otherwise).
- FrontPage does not support uids/gids in place of user names/group names when calling it’s litter help exe to install.
- Wierd locking issues.
- The FrontPage module seems to be some sort of scary combination of Alias/ScriptAlias/SuExec.
- The Linux package kinda sucks. And it was End-Of-Lifed some time ago.
I considered maybe whipping out Ethereal/WireShark and coding up some sort of workalike in Perl or something (along with it’s helper exe’s) to save other people in the future from this crap.
But I changed my mind, because chances are no one actually uses FrontPage or FrontPage extensions anymore. It’s just us struggling to get it to work in our environment.