W32 Apache & MS front page; need server extension installe..

Hi,

I'm using XP and have been working on several web pages using Front
page. I created a feedback form which was from one of the built in
templates of Front Page.

Once completed I then tried utilizing it from the web and got the 404
error when I went to leave a message. I searched the Front page help
on how to collect results from a form. Of the options shown that
sounded good I was interested in either leaving the comments in a file
in Apache or sending me the results as an email.


For the e-mail I found this information:

Send form results in an e-mail message
You can send form results (data that a site visitor enters in your
form) in an e-mail message. Each time a site visitor submits a form, a
message containing the results of the form is sent to the e-mail
address you specify. You can also configure other options for the
messages, such as the text for the Subject line and the address for
the From (Reply To) line.

Note In order to use this feature, the Microsoft FrontPage Server
Extensions must be installed on your Web server and they must be
correctly configured for e-mail. If you experience any problems using
this feature or receive any error messages, contact your server or ISP
administrator about correcting the configuration.

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To have the information saved to a file it says:

Save form results to a file
You can save the form results (data that a site visitor enters in your
form) to a text or HTML file. By default, the file is located in
_private, a hidden directory in your web. You can change this location
and file name as needed. You can select the format of the text file
and specify whether to include field names in the form results. You
can also specify a second file to which to save results.

In Page view, right-click the form, and then click Form Properties on
the shortcut menu.
Click Send to.
A default file name and location for the results file are displayed.
You can specify a different file to use by typing the new name and
location in the File name box, or click Browse to locate the file.

Click Options, and then click the File Results tab.
Set properties for the results file as needed.
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There is no option for form properties but I suspect this is a
question better suited for a front page forum.

My question here deals with the sending email option and where it
says "Note In order to use this feature, the Microsoft FrontPage
Server Extensions must be installed on your Web server and they must
be correctly configured for e-mail."

How do I install these extensions in Apache? Going to the MS office
2000 help was less than helpful.

Thanks

Drosphila <ngbandwith.DeleteThis@spambait-yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
 > How do I install these extensions in Apache?

If you discover how to install them and have them working, please
tell us all. I tryed multiple time, with various results (complete
crash of the system, nothing done, apache refuse to start, apache
start and then crash miserably and so on) but none of them was...
satisfactory...

I suggest you install Microsoft IIS if you want to use FrontPage
or start using another tool to build active web sites (PHP,
Perl, Java, whatever) that is supported by Apache.

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