> > I'm new to Perl... Welcome. > just took an Intro To Perl course and will take a > Perl CGI course in February.
There's a macperl-webcgi list for specific web and cgi topic questions that aren't directly related to MacPerl or MacOS X and perl. It's very low volume, but you'll probably still get answers if you have other questions. > Here's what I *want* to do.... <snip> > > I'd like to be able to run the web site on an OS X machine but I'm > starting to doubt it's possible. I don't have any ODBC drivers listed > in the ODBC Administrator utility on the Mac and was told by a sales > rep at OpenLink that to connect to the AS/400, it would cost roughly > $4000...that's only because it's an AS/400 and I'd need to implement a > two-tier solution. > Have you looked into DBD::Proxy (or is it DBI::Proxy?) Basically, you should be able to set up the OS X box as a webserver, and the windows box (or even your AS/400) as a database proxy, so that all the ODBC connections occur where there are drivers, and the data gets passed back and forth separately. > Can anyone tell me definitely whether or not the OS X solution is a > non-starter? It's not. But it's not as direct as one might hope. -Jeff Lowrey
