[cobalt-users] [QUBE2] FrontPage 2000

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have installed all the Qube2 patches including Qube2-Update-OS-2.0.pkg
which installs the Frontpage 2000 extensions.

Question 1:

I can use FP2K to administer, author, etc. the /home/groups/home/ page so the
extensions would seem to be working for at least one webpage.

I would like to enable FP 2K for some userids. For example, Sam Username
already has a home directory at /home/users/username. I would like to enable
FP 2K extensions so that SAM can use FP2K to maintain his pages. When I try
to use the Cobalt supplied utilities, I get:

[root@www bin]# ./enable.subweb   /home/users/username/  username  username

Cobalt Networks FrontPage Setup Tool

Creating FrontPage sub-web "/home/users/username/"

FrontPage user: username 
      password: username

Temporarily renaming .htaccess files
/usr/bin/find: /home/httpd/html/: No such file or directory
Running fpsrvadm.exe:

Starting install, port: 80, web: "/home/users/username/"

Creating web http://www.mydomain.com/home/users/username
Cannot create folder "/home/groups/home/home/users/username".  <<-- zap!

fpsrvadm.exe finished
Fixing page counter file permissions
/usr/bin/find: /home/httpd/html/: No such file or directory
Restoring .htaccess files
/usr/bin/find: /home/httpd/html/: No such file or directory

The /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf contains DocmentRoot /home/groups/home - 
I assume this is the cause of my problem, but am not sure what it should be?

The FP98 readme.htm file suggests that all config setting should be in
httpd.conf and those from srm.conf and access.conf should be moved to
httpd.conf. I can find nothing on the Cobalt site to indicate that this is
necessary?

What do I need to do to make the FP2K extensions for my users?



Question 2:

FP installs a bunch of help htm files at
/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/sert that I would like to browse in and
use. I have tried to put in a direct url to the htm file I would like to
browse, but get a bad url error. I assume that the configuration is set up to
prevent browsing outside of the documentroot?  I assume that one does not
normally want to allow this due to security. However, does anyone have a
reasonably clean way to allow access (maybe an alias??)?


Question 3:

How does one get the full path to the directory in which one is working.
I.e., I would like a command that tells me I am in /etc/httpd/...  The prompt
just shows the last directory in the path.


Question 4:

Has anyone used disable.subweb after installing the FP2K extensions? I got
the following when I tried to use it:

[root@www bin]# ./disable.subweb username

Cobalt Networks FrontPage Setup Tool

Removing FrontPage sub-web "username" 

Running fpsrvadm.exe:

Starting delete, port: 80, web: "username"

Created: 11 Aug 1999 17:35:55 -0700
Version: 3.0.2.1330
The server administration programs and the server extensions on 
the web server are not compatible. The server is too old to 
use with this administration program.

fpsrvadm.exe finished
Restarting the web server
[root@www bin]# 

As a result, I now have a subweb /home/users/home/test that I cannot remove. 
Anyone run into this problem before and have fix?? What problems will result
if I manually delete the test directory??

Sorry for the long post. The learning curve on this stuff is pretty steep for
a novice.

Many thanks.