Installing the FrontPage® Extensions

Before FrontPage sites can be hosted on a machine you will need to install the correct Frontpage Extension binaries for your platform. These are available from the Microsoft ftp site

FrontPage can only be supported on platforms where Microsoft supplies the required precompiled binaries. For a full list of Microsoft supported UNIX platforms refer to the Microsoft FrontPage homepage or the Zeus FrontPage support pages.

On the ftp site you will need to identify the correct archive for your platform. The files are named fp<version>.<platform>.tar.z, so for example

fp40.solaris.tar.z
contains the FrontPage Extension version 4.0 binaries for the (Sparc)Solaris platform

The installation script which we supply will only work with these binaries, you should not use any other. You should make sure that you download the correct one for your architecture and operating system version.

Save the archive in a suitable location such as /tmp

Once you have downloaded the archive you will need to install it in the /usr/local/ hierarchy and create a symbolic link so Application Server knows the version of the files to use. To do this you will need to log in to the machine as a root user, and issue the following commands:

cd /usr/local/
cat /tmp/fp30.platform.tar.Z | uncompress | tar -xvf -
cd frontpage; ln -s version3.0 currentversion

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