Front Page and phpBB

Mary Pegg wrote:
 > I'm trying to help out someone that seems to have mussed up
 > their phpBB installation, on account of using Front Page to
 > upload some files.
 >
 > I generally avoid Front Page like I'd avoid a bubonic rat,
 > so I'm not too sure on what it does when it uploads some
 > files.

Me too ;o) and I manage a Windows hosting service.

 > However it seems to have dropped vti_cnf files
 > all over the place.

yep, it does that

 > Anyway, will FP have done Evil Things to the .php files
 > themselvs, and if so, what?

no - it shouldn't have touched anything already in place - unless the file
names were identical but then that's a problem with ftp too.

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William Tasso wrote:

  >> Anyway, will FP have done Evil Things to the .php files
  >> themselvs, and if so, what?
 >
 > no - it shouldn't have touched anything already in place - unless the file
 > names were identical but then that's a problem with ftp too.

Okay thanks. I wonder what the guy did, then.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Richard wrote:

 > Never use FP to upload with. Use a stand alone ftp client designed for
 > that purpose.

You're preaching to the converted! I've never used FP for anything,
let alone uploading files.

 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.acehtml.com" target="_blank">www.acehtml.com</a> very similar to FP but without the problems and has many
 > features FP does not.

A Windows program, I see.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Mary Pegg" <nospam.DeleteThis@widetrouser.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:t%44b.2045$c12.27363@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net...
 > Hello again,
 >
 > I'm trying to help out someone that seems to have mussed up
 > their phpBB installation, on account of using Front Page to
 > upload some files.
 >
 > I generally avoid Front Page like I'd avoid a bubonic rat,
 > so I'm not too sure on what it does when it uploads some
 > files. However it seems to have dropped vti_cnf files
 > all over the place.
 >
 > Anyway, will FP have done Evil Things to the .php files
 > themselvs, and if so, what?
 >


If he "saved" a PHP page with FP then I can almost guarantee that the page
was "re-written" to how FP wants it to be written and saved over the top of
the original.

FP is a great tool and has some powerful uses, sadly I can't think of any
web related ones.

;o)
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Makrobicz wrote:

 > If he "saved" a PHP page with FP then I can almost guarantee that the page
 > was "re-written" to how FP wants it to be written and saved over the top
 > of the original.

I don't think he did this. I think he used the "publish" feature to upload
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