On 03/12/98 15:22:50 you wrote:
Does anyone have some experience setting up an NT4/IIS 4.0 Web server with the FrontPage extensions, using a Netapp as the data store? According to Microsoft (and supported by our own tests), FrontPage will *not* work to a network share. In fact, many Microsoft server products will lose much of their functionality if they are not run on local disks.
I'm pretty much convinced this is an NT issue and not a Netapp one (since we can't get FrontPage to work even when sharing a filesystem from another NT box). What are the alternatives? NFS on NT? We asked a Microsoft IIS engineer how MS handles the problem of distributed servers, and his response was "Oh, we just replicate all our data". :-/
The alternative is pretty clear to me... don't use IIS/FrontPage if it requires you to redo your entire infrastructure or approach in order to support it.
Bruce
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:
The alternative is pretty clear to me... don't use IIS/FrontPage if it requires you to redo your entire infrastructure or approach in order to support it.
I don't think that's an option, unfortunately. The challenge is to give customers what they need, rather than what they think they want. They want NT. What they need is an easy way to manage the content of their Web site and the e-mail of their employees, without having the first clue about the Internet. Writing our own software to do that would take a lot longer than buying an off-the-shelf product. Maybe we'll go with FrontPage with Apache on Solaris, or perhaps we'll find that NFS on NT with the Netapp does the job for us.
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:39:54 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao taob@nbc.netcom.ca To: sirbruce@ix.netcom.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: FP'98 + IIS 4.0 + NT4 + CIFS
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Maybe we'll go with FrontPage with Apache on Solaris, or perhaps we'll find that NFS on NT with the Netapp does the job for us.
Must you use IIS? Apache is now available for NT (not optimised though). I haven't used it myself but it might be an option. (Have loads of NT machines, but Apache on FreeBSD does fine)
I note that it (Apache on NT) allows ISAPI extensions, so FP may work with it (what a messy hack!) See http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html
Pity MS don't get their act together. It would be nice to point Exchange at a filer and let it rip. All those fancy emails take up a load of space (Yes I know about the Mailbox clean up agent)
GB
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Garrett Burke wrote:
Must you use IIS? Apache is now available for NT (not optimised though). I haven't used it myself but it might be an option. (Have loads of NT machines, but Apache on FreeBSD does fine)
We're already running Apache for all our existing Web hosting on Solaris. I'd love to be able to run Apache on NT, but it's not fully-baked yet, and I'd rather not introduce more unknowns into the equation than I have to.
I note that it (Apache on NT) allows ISAPI extensions, so FP may work with it (what a messy hack!) See http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html
Yeah, I might as well just ditch NT altogether at that point, and install FP for Solaris on our Apache servers.
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