On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Sridhar Ranganathan spewed into the ether:
> Does Apache work with JSP or Servlets?? Where can I find FREE ASP or
> similar tools for Apache on Linux??
For ASP support, you can download the ASP mod from CPAN (
http://www.cpan.org ). For JSP, use tomcat, witha suitable JDK
> Also, I need to put up a web site containg articles on various
> topics...kinda like devshed. what kinda database structure should I
> use? Should I save articles in the database or the path to the actual
I would say actual articles, but I am not a DB expert.
CREATE TABLE article
(
article_id integer primary key,
article_date date,
article_topic varchar(255),
article_author varchar(255),
article_data text
)
might be one structure that would help.
> articles? What are the other design issues? Which would give me good
> performance uploading the article to the database or uploading the
> article to the server and store ONLY the path to the article in the
> database???
Hmmm, if all pages are going to be separate individual HTML files, then
just the path in the database would be faster
[Replace the article_data table by article_path varchar(255)]
Devdas Bhagat
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