"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with >apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers: > >1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts >apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found expects it to be. >I am not sure why debian doesn't put apache there, but I'm sure the package >manager had reasons.
Debian packages, and packages distributed by any other Filesystem Hierarchy Standard-compliant distribution, should never install files into /usr/local. See: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1.2 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.6.html It's rarely that difficult to substitute /usr/local with /usr in your head, though I concede it can often be useful to build Apache yourself anyway; perhaps you should have a look at the Debian package and see if there's anything that could be improved so that this isn't necessary? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]