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Q161150: FP97: Microsoft Personal Web Server vs. FP Personal Web Server

Article: Q161150
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage kbdta
Last Modified: 26-SEP-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows 
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For a Microsoft  version of this article, see Q194355.

SUMMARY
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This article describes the differences between the FrontPage Personal Web Server
and the Microsoft Personal Web Server.

NOTE: Both Web servers are designed for low volume personal or intranet use.
Neither is recommended as a commercial or corporate Web server. The Microsoft
Personal Web Server offers features that programmers need to use in order to
create Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) programs or to
access databases using Internet Database Connector (IDC) technology.

MORE INFORMATION
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FrontPage Personal Web Server
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The FrontPage Personal Web Server is the personal Web server that ships with
FrontPage 1.0 and FrontPage 1.1. It is a direct descendant of NCSA 1.3, ported
from UNIX to Microsoft Windows. It supports only standard input/output Common
Gateway Interface (CGI) and the FrontPage Server Extensions. It is a Hypertext
Transport Protocol (HTTP) server only. It is configurable through the
manipulation of text files in the "conf" subdirectory of the server installation
directory.

Microsoft Personal Web Server
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The Microsoft Personal Web Server includes a Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP)
and a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. The Microsoft Personal Web Server is
fully integrated into the Windows 95 taskbar and Control Panel, which allows you
to start and stop HTTP and FTP services, to administer the server, or to change
general options.

The Microsoft Personal Web Server includes an HTML-based administration utility
that also supports full remote administration from a Web browser. It supports
both user-level and local security. Users can set up the Microsoft Personal Web
Server to support Windows NT Challenge/Response (NTLM) encrypted-password
transmission. The Microsoft Personal Web Server's support for NTLM allows remote
FrontPage authors and administrators to be validated by their network logon
username and password within the context of a Windows NT network, bypassing the
need to re-enter this information when authoring. The Microsoft Personal Web
Server disables security when authoring locally so you will not be prompted for
your name and password as long as you are running FrontPage from the same
computer where the Microsoft Personal Web Server is installed.

Microsoft Personal Web Server fully supports existing standards such as CGI and
includes the open Internet Server API (ISAPI) extension to the Win32 API which
is up to five times faster than CGI-based applications. Microsoft Personal Web
Server also supports simple database access through the Internet Database
Connector (IDC).

Additional query words: 97 fppws mspws FrontPage Personal Web Server

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Keywords          : kbusage kbdta 
Technology        : kbFrontPageSearch kbFrontPage97 kbZNotKeyword2 kbFrontPage97Search
Version           : :
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

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