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Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by carl

carl — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:31:40 +0000

@CiViX

I have only upgrade RHEL 4 servers running Apache 2.0.x to Plesk 8.3 and FrontPage continued working on all of them.

Thinking about your statement, yes, Plesk does not affect mod_frontpage. Plesk only controls Apache’s configuration files.

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by CiViX

CiViX — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:25:34 +0000

At least one person has reported PLESK 8.3 breaking the new Frontpage-support. This seems unplausible to me as PLESK itself shouldn’t affect mod_frontpage?

Have any of you tried upgrading to PLESK 8.3, and did it screw up Frontpage or did it work fine?

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by CiViX

CiViX — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:58 +0000

Ah, seems the problem was that the httpd-update had overwritten the suexec. I fixed it by following this info: http://kb.swsoft.com/en/1322

(Btw, the upgrade was not to httpd-2.2.6, just from 2.2.3-10 to 2.2.3-11.)

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by CiViX

CiViX — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:56:50 +0000

Upgraded to apache 2.2.6 and now the Frontpage-support seems to be broken again :-/ Have any of you experienced this or found any fix? Would it be sufficient just to recompile the frontpage-rpm do you think?

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by Carl Swart

Carl Swart — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:29:48 +0000

@CiViX

Sorry but everything on my side is working 100%. It has now been 10 days and all the clients are happy.

The only suggestion I have is to for you to start from the beginning.

Sorry that I can not be of more assistance.

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by CiViX

CiViX — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:22:41 +0000

The FP Webadmin layout is screwed up. I’m testing in Firefox, but th FP Webadmin looks fine on servers running “original Frontpage-module”, so there must be something wrong with this patched version. I’ve checked and the styles (webadmin.css) and images seem to be in the correct directories with the right permissions…

Anyone figure this out?

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by codepoet

codepoet — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:00:32 +0000

@carl

Yeah, I managed to get it figured out shortly after my last post here. Ended up needing to delete/re-add the domain into Plesk, not sure what exactly I’d broken, but that made everything start working again.

Thanks,

-Kenneth

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by Carl Swart

Carl Swart — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:35:05 +0000

@codepoet

You are indeed correct. That was part of the problem. The major problem however was that the patches that I made use of literally altered a piece of the mod_frontpage code. When I looked at the original Apache 1.3 code I discovered the problem and re-created the patches.

Have you made sure that all the permissions on the FPSE files are correct by running the set_default_perms.sh script in the /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/ directory?

Comment on Urrgghh …. FrontPage! by codepoet

codepoet — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:01:26 +0000

I’ve found a problem in that patch you linked, that may explain why your FrontPage isn’t working….

at about line 840 after applying the patches… there is a part that is invalid… the patch made these changes…

- ap_table_set(r->notes,”FPexecfilename”, ap_pstrcat(r->pool, FPSTUB, NULL));
- r->filename = ap_pstrcat(r->pool, r->filename, szCgi, NULL);
+ execFilename = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, FP, szDir, szBuf, szBase, NULL);
+ apr_table_set(r->notes,”FPexecfilename”, execFilename);

which were not correct for what is being done, the first of those new lines should really be

execFilename = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, FPSTUB, NULL);
instead of …. FP, szDir, szBuf, szBase… as was incorrectly put in the patch

some of those (szDir/szBase) are uninitialized variables that make random stuff in the log like
“attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0\xa4\xc4\xcf\xbf_\xaf\xbf\xb7\xc0\xc4\xcf\xbf\xe6\xe1\x1f\xb7\x022523\xa5\n”

Now, if only I could figure out why it refuses to accept my password for the FPadmin login, i’d be all set.