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Need Help - Don't understand setting up FP under unix
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| Donna 2004-02-07, 10:36 am |
| I am trying to orient myself to the unix way of running frontpage
server extensions. I have run them on Windows NT for years but I have
a few questions.
My users only use the machine for posting to their Frontpage subwebs.
They don't login except through FP.
I created subwebs for them on my NT box and only allow them to access
those directories on the server.
My questions relate to creating their accounts. If I only want them
to be able to access their directories through FP, can I create their
"home" directories within the www/html directory and then link the
"subwebs" to those directories?
or is the Unix way of doing things like this:
Create users directories, put them in a group by function
then link their "subwebs" to them? Are the "subwebs" just defined by
who owns them? or do the subwebs link to the user's home directory.
I guess I just don't understand if the person has only a "home"
directory or if they get additional space created by FP.
Can someone explain how FP creates "subwebs" (for dummies ?
Thanks!
Donna
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| Gail Mignard 2004-02-07, 10:36 am |
| Donna,
On UNIX a peruser web is a type of subweb with the documentroot for a
http://<web>/~username web that will be found in the user's home
directory. For example if your home directory is /home/donna then
FrontPage will place your ~donna web in /home/donna/public_html. If
instead you want the document root for the donna web to be under the
main website then simply leave the ~ off when creating the web. (If
http://<web> is found on /usr/apache/htdocs, then http://<web>/donna
will be found in /usr/apache/htdocs/donna.)
Hope this helps,
Gail
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