This script is supposed to help you upgrade your *currently running* server so that you will be able to use FrontPage extensions. Note, it's not a good idea to run this script because it will replace your current Apache executable with the one kept in the frontpage/version4.0/apache-fp. It gives you a chance to opt out of the upgrade once you run this program. But just to be safe, you should keep away from it.

This script can be downloaded from the website that you get the FrontPage extensions tarball from. It also comes in the tarball itself. You should use this script to actually install the global FrontPage extensions setup in /usr/local/frontpage. The script will ask you a series of questions about your server and where things are located. There is more information about how to use this script later in this document.

This file has some configuration information for how the server extensions work globally. It also has some configuration information on how the extensions are installed on a per web basis.

If there is anything that would make me think that Microsoft intended that the FrontPage extensions are for dummies, it would be this script right here. This script is supposed to change the permissions on the files and directories in the /usr/local/frontpage/version4.0 directory back to their defaults. Chances are that if you've messed up your global directory so much that you need to use this script, it would just be better to re-install the extensions.

This file sets global defaults for the root or sub web extensions. Settings such as the outgoing SMTP server can be set in this file. A list of possible configuration variables and values for this and other .cnf files in the FrontPage directory can be found at http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk/apndx03.htm.

If you want to give specific configuration values for any virtual domain host, you should create a file in this directory called <servername>:<port>.cnf where <servername> is the name of the virtual server and <port> is the port that it runs on (usually port 80). This is formatted in the same fashion as the we80.cnf file.