Here is a comparison of features between our Unix and NT servers running the FrontPage extensions:
| FP2000 for Apache (default) | FP2000 for NT IIS 4 | ||
| Feature | Users | Domains | Domains Only |
| General Features | |||
| Live Editing on the Server | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing To the Server | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Themes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Navigation View | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Borders | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Channels | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Permissions - Permit custom list of users for access or editing | Yes (for entire site!); managed by your FrontPage Client | Yes (for entire site, or per subweb); managed by your FrontPage client | No (requires our NT administrator to add each of your users to our global NT user domain manager and group manager). This option can not be controlled by your copy of the FrontPage client. |
| Subwebs | No (~user webs are already a subweb, off of the main www.calweb.com) | Yes | Yes |
| Security per Subweb | N/A See above for Subwebs | Yes | Kinda. See above for "Permissions". |
| Active Elements | |||
| Hover Button (server extensions not needed; java web browser is needed) |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Banner Add Manager (server extensions not needed; java web browser is needed) |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Marqueue (server extensions not needed; Internet Explorer only feature) |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search Form | Yes | Yes | Not too well. Pretty bad, in fact. |
| Hit Counter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video (browser dependent) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FrontPage Components | |||
| Comment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Confirmation Field | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hit Counter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Include Page | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Insert HTML | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Page Banner | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled Image | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled Include | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Substitution | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Forms | |||
| Save to File on Server | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Send Form to Email | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Registration Bot | N/A See above for Subwebs | Yes | No. See above for "Permissions". |
| Database | |||
| .ASP files | No | No | Yes |
| .IDC files | No | No | Yes |
| Note that ODBC,.ASP, etc are supported by our NT server, but may require an additional charge. NT services are priced on a case by case basis, based on resource requirements of the individual customer. | |||
| CGI | |||
| CGI direct | Yes (global CGI's only) | Yes (global CGI's only) | Yes (we need to be notified in order to make a scripts directory for you) |
| CGI via SuEXEC (a transparent security measure that ensures that CGI's are owned/run by your ID) | Yes (name files as .cgi) | Yes, as either .cgi or in a private CGI directory. This will break global CGI's; however, we can copy any global CGI's you might need. Please notify webmaster@calweb.com to set up security related measures. | No |
| CGI via CGIWRAP (another semi transparent security measure, that also includes debugging aids) | Yes (ask webstaff@calweb.com to enable). Does not affect global CGI's. | Yes (ask webstaff@calweb.com to enable). Does not affect global CGI's. | No |