RE: [cobalt-users] FrontPage Problems

["1st Web Internet Services" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

My method is to create a user for each site that is only used from FrontPage
/ FTP, make that user administrator. This also assists people if they get a
3rd party to design the sites, as they will not be handing out the username
& password of their mailbox.

Then I create the FrontPage extensions, upload a holding page using the user
created above.

I also will create a cgi-bin via FTP again using this user - or via Telnet.

Finally any automatically created directories or files, I make sure that I
chown them just after the cron file creates or updates the files.

Using this method I have never has any problems, as the files / directories
will either be owned by httpd or the user created. As long as you use the
same user to publish with FP you will have no problems.

I use FTP & FrontPage on sites with no problems (yet!)

Regards,

Ian.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark G. Castillo
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 6:27 PM
> To: Cobalt Users Group (E-mail)
> Subject: [cobalt-users] FrontPage Problems
>
>
> Well,
>
> As if I weren't busy enough, now we are having problems with FrontPage and
> it's &!?#%*@ extensions.  One of my people broke the cardinal
> rule of mixing
> FTP and FrontPage publishing when uploading a site to our RaQ3.
> Naturally,
> this sort of works, but not really.  For anyone with this experience, you
> lose the tree structure of the site, along with causing some interesting
> problems with permissions and ownerships of the FrontPage files.  The
> question is this:
> Is there a way to Telnet into the box and fix the permissions and
> ownerships
> on the website files?  I think what is happening is that some files are
> owned by admin and some are now owned by httpd.  I saw that Bryan Kidd
> seemed to be having a similar problem yesterday.  Bryan?  What was the
> solution?  If there is a nastier way that this has to be done,
> like killing
> the site, removing and reinstalling the FrontPage extensions, then
> republishing the site with FrontPage, please let me know that,
> too.  Whether
> it takes a pair of tweezers or a sledgehammer, I want to fix
> this.  Probably
> the best is just to buy Macromedia Dreamweaver and round-file FrontPage...
>
>
> :) Mark
>
>
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