On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:07 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > FrontPage is not any more secure than any other HTML editor. True. > All FP > does is give you a GUI development environment with a quasi-SourceSafe > upload capacity. And WYSIWYG and navigation, form and form-mail handlers. It keeps the links in sync. It does a lot of good stuff. I have tried Dream Weaver and have never quite been able to get the hang of it. Since it works in wine, I wish that I could become proficient. > Quanta is good, and there's a ton of other decent > GUI-based website design packages out there that need nothing more than > FTP upload capacity on the server to post your stuff. Stick with them. Quanta is not WYSIWYG > Speaking as one of the incredibly stupid few that have done the patches > and crap to make Apache work with FP, I can tell you that it is an > unholy, farking nightmare to set up and make work properly. If you > aren't a skilled programmer, don't even TRY to do it. I've been doing > this stuff for 30 years and _I_ get brain cramps with it. > I have never had any problems with the extensions. However, I have found that mod_security breaks FP; suexec breaks virtual hosts and NEVER mess with root .htaccess files. The web interface to owsadm.exe is also messy because it requires IE in order to work properly. ________________________________________________________________________ Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence http://www.TQMcube.com
