Chili!Soft ASP 3.6 supports Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. With FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions, Web authors and developers working on Windows-based computers can use the FrontPage client to publish Web pages and applications to UNIX-based or Linux-based Web servers, or to Windows NT/2000-based computers running a Web server other than Internet Information Server (IIS).
When you perform a bundle installation of Chili!Soft ASP 3.6, the setup program automatically installs and configures FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions on your server. When you perform a custom installation of Chili!Soft ASP, you must go to the Microsoft Web site in order to obtain the extensions, as described in "Installing FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions" in this chapter. FrontPage Server Extensions are preinstalled on Cobalt platforms.
Once the extensions are installed, you must take additional steps to enable users to publish their pages to the server, as described in "Enabling FrontPage Authoring" and "Setting up FrontPage Users" in this chapter.
You can find more information about FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/languages/fp/default.asp
Note
When publishing ASP pages created in FrontPage, be aware that EnableParentPaths is set to No by default in the Chili!Soft ASP configuration file. With this configuration, CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject") calls generated in global.asa file by FrontPage will not work. This means that you must either change EnableParentPaths to Yes, or else ASP developers must change the code that FrontPage generated in the global.asa file to Server.CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject"). However, be aware that changing this setting from the default can create a security risk for your server. For more information, see "Configuring File System Access" and "Editing the Chili!Soft Configuration File" in this chapter.
See also:
Managing the Web Server in this chapter
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