Topic: Frontpage 2000 extensions

[John Beukema]

This is a repost of an earlier message that I added to the "Port Mapping" thread, which seems to have dwindled in visibility.

I am about to install e-smith on a P166 ISA-NIC machine. I have the 3.1 distribution and the latest 4.0 beta.

e-smith will act as a masquerade for a always-on DSL connection to my network. My website, which I want to move from a remote host to my LAN was developed in Outlook 2000, which depends on special server extensions easily provided by IIS and PWS, the low-end MS web servers.

Does the e-smith server support those extensions, and if it does not, can I remap HTTP requests through e-smith to another server running IIS?

Thanks for your help,

JB

[Carl Milloshewski]

E-smith uses Apache and it does support frontpage extensions, but not the MS office extensions.

To see more about Frontpage extension search this support board for FrontPage and see http://www.rtr.com.

You will have to make some custom modifications to the system, see http://www.e-smith.org for details.

[John Beukema]

I am rapidly moving out of my competency when we talk of customizing e-smith. Sadly, I am not Linux or Unix savvy, and the customizing procedures noted at e-smith.org seem beyond me by reason of terminology. This seems to rapidly be moving past the "tinkering" stage, which is why I chose e-smith over RH and Apache.

Given the market penetration of Frontpage it doesn't seem particularly unreasonable that e-smith provide an RPM (using a new word here!) install that would make frontpage extensions a snap.

I am very willing to work to expand my command of DOS/WinNT/2000. I am constantly doing this, in fact. But to take on an entirely different environment to learn to include what, in the old environment is considered standard, goes against good sense and time management. Can you imagine any Windows-based proxy or firewall _not_ having the extensions built in?

So the second part of my question comes around: can I remap the HTTP and FTP ports (with simple commands) to another machine running IIS and continue using e-smith as an IP masquerade?

If I cannot do this, then I face abandoning e-smith in favor of the well-documented MS proxy server running on a beefier NT box. Perhaps more importantly, I lose the opportunity to praise Linux until my next experimental foray.

Thanks for your consideration

JB