Frontpage extension and Suexec problem.

Franco primo at ischianet.com
Thu Jul 8 17:54:23 UTC 2004


Hi Alexander can you tell me all steps to do that!
The patch is that you have toll.
My customers use frontpage for the costruction of
their sites so i must install fp extensions.
Thanks for your help.


Alexander Dalloz ha scritto:

> Am Do, den 08.07.2004 schrieb Franco um 18:51:
> 
> 
>>Hi, Frontpage extension and Suexec standard installation don't
>>work, there is a suid problem (root instead apache).
>>I have found a suexec patch that allow to work with frontpage
>>extensions but i don't know how apply it.
>>Can someone help me?
>>If i disable suexec frontpage work fine.
>>Best regards.
> 
> 
> Is it the patch here?
> 
> http://oss.empoweringmedia.com/?m=addons&e=apache2-suexec-fp
> 
> You will have to use the Apache2 sources and patch the modification
> source code into it using the tool "patch". That is not trivial!
> 
> The patch from the above site is not huge, just adds a few lines into
> the Apache2 source code. If you have luck you would be able to add the
> patch unchanged to the spec file of the httpd package for Fedora. If
> not, well it's not trivial ...
> 
> Do you really need the Frontpage extensions? I suggest you better forget
> that, because of security concerns, and use WebDAV instead. That is
> already build into Apache2 and allows web content makers easy handling
> of their code on the webserver too. Even WebDAV shares can be locally
> mounted - both on Linux as well on Windows[tm].
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 





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