> Hi Nic,
g'day, Simon - long time no talk :)
> I'm currently running Interbase under 98 and NT with no problems, but I
need
> to get it running on Linux, and THEN get it hooked up to a web-server
> (apache, of course) via a scripting language.
> Unfortunately, I have yet to
> find anything that will link directly to IB on Linux, and I'm a bit stuck
> for ideas. Neither PHP or PERL seems quite ready to talk to IB, and while
> I'd (reluctantly) use ODBC, I'm not sure whether that option (or something
> equivalent) is available to me on Linux.
I'm all for JSP, which uses JDBC to connect. I'm doing that at present with
the JDK1.2RC2, which is not 100% stable (few leaks here and there), but I
havn't had it crash on me yet (been using it for dev. for about 3 weeks)
> Can you (or anyone else) offer me a way to connect web pages to IB on
Linux
> via Apache?
See above. Its not very hard, IMO. JRun (www.livesoftware.com) is very good
for this, as is Sun's reference implementation or the host of other JSP
engines - see www.esperanto.org.nz for a list of them.
>
> I also need to know whether the free IB4 for Linux that I heard Inprise
were
> giving away is still available, and if it is a good idea.
yes, and no. Yes, its still there, I beleive, and no, I dont think its a
good idea - its interbase 4.2, which is VERY old (like, 4-5 versions old). I
think you'd be better off with IB5.6 for Linux, tho you'd have to pay for it
:( - and you can't use the JDBC driver with it (4.2), either.
Nic.
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