Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:38:18 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > > > > > I just learned that if you run Apache+Frontpage, you can't teach Apache to > > only listen on a single IP address. For some reason, Frontpage causes > > Apache to always bind to all IP addresses. Somehow, this stupidity doesn't > > really surprise me too much. > > > > The reason I wanted to do this is because I have a machine I want to > > set jails up on, so I can run multiple instances of Apache. But I didn't > > want to mess with the existing Apache installation right now. > > > > Anyway ... in the long run I've got two choices: > > 1) Get Apache+Frontpage running in a jail so it will quit fscking up the other > > stuff I'm trying to do on this machine > > 2) Find some alternative to frontpage to provide frontpage services that > > behaves like a proper server. > > > > My questions are (respectively): > > 1) Does anyone have Apache+Frontpage successfully running in a jail? I just > > thought I'd ask before I spent (wasted?) a lot of time trying to make it > > work. > > 2) Can anyone suggest an alternative to Apache+Frontpage? I prefer scp myself > > (and there are even spiffy GUI scp clients for Windows) but many of these > > clients _insist_ on using Frontpage, so I _must_ continue to cater to them. > > > > TIA for any answers. > > Sorry if this is off track but one wonders if you need to have clients > upload to a production box with FP. Can you set up a staging server so > that clients can upload and view content then give them a simple admin > page where they can push a button that sets off an rsync script to the > production box. Your production machine could have all kinds of jails > and fancy stuff but no FP extentions. Any old piece of junk could be > pressed into service as a staging box. At least that way you could do > away with FP on the production box and apache could be jailed for life.
Thanks, Luke. That's definately a good idea. The problem is that the "old pieces of junk, pressed into service" are the very reason I'm doing this project. We already have a number of older machines doing various stuff, and I'm trying to rearrange things to make better use of each of the various machines and it's capabilities. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
