On 6/1/06, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Gang.
I am being 'blessed' with Microsfot Frontpage 2003 to use to do HTML stuff.
(Officially Sanctioned tool here) I have to publish it to both a Linux
instance and a z/OS image. The Linux instance will eventually live on an intel
VM thing. Anyway....
The thing is, I can't get the blasted thing to publish via FTP to z/OS - it's
trying to use the ftp:// web browser protocol instead of a real FTP
session. if I tell it to try ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path it fails to detect
the already created folder and then bitches about it cant find a server at
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. The fact that it is not seeing a folder that should be
there tells me it never gets to the HFS and is not handling an internal
error correctly.
I have not yet tried to get it to talk to Linux but that looks like at the very
least it's going to require Frontpage extensions or WebDav. Neither of
which I think will fly.
Way back in the day, I used FP 98 (again that's what was sanctioned, regardless
of how lousy a product it is) back in the day, and that invoked a real
FTP conversation irrespective of there being a web server involved. Is there
any way to get FP 2003 to just DO what I want it to do? If not, is there
an open source publishing solution I can run on Linux on intel?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-J
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I apologize if I misunderstood your question. When you FTP to zOS you
have to deal with EBCIDIC. Quite often, end-of-line gets
misinterpreted or blanks end-up with funny characters. Turn-on HEX on
your TSO editor and you will see what I am talking about. The WEB
servers under Unix Services / zOS is sensitive to the content of the
files. I ran this set up for a while until I got Linux on the
Mainframe.
If you want to automate your pages to be synchronized accross
different WEB servers you will find that it is a challenge. The
problem is that FTP does a poor job with some of the conversions to
EBCIDIC. I always had to go into the pages and do some final touches.
Now, if you are not in need to syn with a zOS based WEB servers, the
story is very different. Take a look at Unison, you can have the same
web pages served under different WEB servers as long as the pages are
not dynamically built.
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