Hey Laura, As far as running php-shindig-on-iis goes, someone did walk that path before you and wrote a blog post about it: http://my6solutions.com/post/2009/04/18/OpenSocial-Running-Shindig-PHP-under-IIS.aspx (it's the first hit when you search for "php shindig iis" btw, never underestimate the internet:)
If you're not entirely sure about if you should become a container, it might also be worth looking into Google Friend Connect ( http://www.google.com/friendconnect/), you can mix it's authentication with your own (see code examples in the "For Developers" tab) and it can render any OpenSocial gadgets for you (see the "Add gadget by URL" link in the gadgets gallery) without having to implement shindig your self. As far as gadget portability goes, some gadgets do work on any OpenSocial compliant platform, but unfortunately most are currently written with a specific container / behavior in mind, so this means having to reach out to the gadget developers (which you can find by looking through http://directory.opensocial.org/gadgets/directory?synd=cad) and contacting them to ask them to support your container. Hope that helps! -- Chris On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Laura <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I work for a social networking site and we're looking to host gadgets > possibly using open social. We're a windows/.NET shop, so I'm very > green to all this. Have some silly questions to start with: > > 1) Just like the last post, when i try to run shindig, I get a 404 not > found error. We don't have a subdirectory thing going, but I wonder if > there's a bunch of URL rewriting going on that will only work with > Apache? Is it possible to have shindig running with IIS? If so, does > anyone know roughly what shindig parts could I keep vs. gut out and > rewrite? > > 2) If we were to become a container, I'm still not sure I understand > how easy or difficult it would be to take an existing gadget and put > it on our site. From what I can gather, it seems the gadget developer > would still need to make some code changes specific to our container. > Is that right? Or would gadgets written for say iGoogle be droppable > to us with no code changes? > > 3) If we're not able to use shindig at all, is there some 3rd party > that's willing to provide this as a service? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
