Prospective FQuest client

[Dean B]

Hi All,
I've heard nothing but good stuff about FQuest (mainly from Alex E & Deb at the UBB site) and am thinking about moving from my present host. A couple of questions - I use Fronpage98 on a few of my sites. Are Frontpage extensions part of an FQuest package ? Secondly, just how much control do you have with your own individual control centre ? For instance, I've just implemented a code hack to the UBBoard where I needed to set my server up to parse .html files. Could I have done that here ? I'm asking these questions in this forum in case anyone else has needed to do this.
Reading through some of your messages you sure are a friendly bunch of people which certainly makes a refreshing change in this business http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif


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[JoeZychik]

Downtime is not much of an issue. They had probs with lines coming out of the phone company and took care of them. All downtimes are posted on line. Says a lot about their integrity.
Support for 3rd party scripts has been excellent for me. Had numerous question about installing 2 different message boards not supported by FQ.
Got very good response and advice.
Much more than expected.
Turnaround time on responses has been very good.
Considered many other services before choosing FQ.
Am happy and expect to transfer two other domains here when the domain contracts run out.

It's hard to imagine you would be unhappy with FQ.

best,

jz

[Justin]

FutureQuest does not support Frontpage server extentions, and for some good reasons. Rather than try to explain myself, I'll just refer you to these two URL's that should about cover it.

http://www.futurequest.net/FAQVI.shtml

http://www.aota.net/Tutorials/FrontPage/



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Justin Nelson, SFE Inc.
http://www.vdj.net

[Dean B]

Thx for your reply guys. The points made about Frontpage exts make good sense Justin. Can you help me on my second point about parsing .html files ? Also at present I have 3 UBBs on my server. Just how easy is it to set up a UBB on FQuest if you can't chmod 777 ?
Thx again.


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[Deb]

Hi Dean,

I am not exactly sure what you mean by "parsing .html" files....

Are you referring to web weaving with SSI or PHP or something else? Seems we're stuck in miscommunication... if you can explain to me what you're looking for I can let you know http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

As far as the UBB it's quite simple really... you upload everything cgi into the cgi-bin and just make sure it is ALL cgi-mod 755 then upload non-cgi into your www directory and set the persmissions the same way you would anywhere else. We do recommend that you chmod the members directory to 700 so no 'domain surfers' can get into it.

In the FAQ forum you'll find that Del created a tutorial for installing the UBB.

Hope this helps
Deb

[Del]

Sounds to me like you mean parsing .html as if they were .shtml, right? (Instead of going thru and renaming all your files .shtml and changing some number of links)

I know it's possible elsewhere, just not sure how to do it on FQuest. I'll look around and see if I can find the answer. If someone else posts it before me, gruvy http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

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Okay, found some info. To add .shtml as server parsed, the following line goes into the .htaccess file;

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml

So, in my sometimes illogical thinking, the next line should add .html as server parse (although I have not tried it, and I cannot make any promises that it will work);

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

If anyone knows better than this, let me know. If it works fine, please let me know also.

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[This message has been edited by Del (edited 01-17-99).]

[Terra]

FQuest does not recommend parsing .html files for SSI processing, due to the increased server overhead... Apache *must* parse every .html file whether they have SSI directives in them or not...

If you *really really really* must have this capability, then you can override it via .htaccess overrides...

The server currently allows you to override, but this open-policy may change at anytime... If you do implement the following, then we make a change, and your SSI directives start returning errors - you will need to email 'support@FutureQuest.net' for a special server core override to allow you to do this...

.htaccess
>>>>>start
Options +Includes
AddHandler server-parsed .html
<<<<<end

I hope you understand A.O.T.A...

We do our best to squeeze every ounce of performance from our Apache servers, by configuring for maximum overdrive by reducing unnecessary processing overhead...

--
Andrew Gillespie
Systems Administrator
FutureQuest.net
All Of The Above

--Big Trucks, Steven King and AC/DC - wOw, what a combination--

[Justin]

My favorite movie also http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

[Dean B]

Thx everyone for your responses. Yes, you're right Del, that's exactly what I meant. Most servers are set up to parse (read each line) for SSI commands on .shtml or .shtm only, for the reasons Andrew gives in his post. However, I've been led to believe that this only really becomes an issue if your site receives a lot of traffic, which mine unfortunately doesn't http://www.aota.net/ubb/frown.gif
Anyway, the reason I asked about this is because there was a very good hack to the UBB code which would give you an individual count to each message thread. You can now see just how many times your posting has been read by other board users. I've implemented this on a couple of UBBs and it seems a popular addition (it's on the UBB below) To see where I got the idea go check - http://www.scriptkeeper.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000627.html

Once again, thx for your responses. I'm very tempted to go sign up now http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif


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