On 31 Jul 98, at 12:24, Robert Morse wrote:
> Need to keep track of a lot a data. Getting a hefty NT server soon. Up
> 'till now, most everyone used Linux/Apache. So we're bucking the trend.
> Actually, we're just interested in using what technology suits specific
> need. Not abandoning the Linux world, just complementing it.
I am curious. My preference is to unix/linux but I am not "against"
using windows. I tried to use a windows solution.
Our office intranet is located on an NT. That same NT serves as a
file server, fax server, and is the server for the accounting program.
Of course the intranet is currently just static html pages, no cgi or
asp; nothing but static html. My first thought was that we should
get a separate computer for the intranet. Our information manager
has not even considered that. I spoke to him about allowing people
to enter their time sheets on the intranet and tying that into an
access database. He said he had a copy of Front-Page 98
somewhere. I did a little research and told him that it had to be
Interdev or nothing. Of course I found the DBI module for perl to
manipulate an access database on my NT machine (I use it in
preference to the slower access gui). I just didn't see installing perl
on this NT that is already performing a lot of other functions. Plus,
how was I going to remotely workon that NT as it was currently
setup?
So I brought in an old 486. Paid less than US$45.00 and installed
linux. I spent a little time downloading msql and mysql; installed
those. I see no major or even minor costs in expanding or further
utilitizing this linux box.
Now I tried to install the personal web server and whatever
webserver came with the NT option pack. I was dumbfounded. I
could not get any cgi or asp to work. The asp did not even work
right after installation. The linux setup worked just as it was
supposed to. Not so for this windows solution. Mind you this was
all the free stuff from windows. Would it have been any different if I
had paid the big bucks for everything? I just did not find it easy at
all to do what I could easily do on linux. Yet there are a lot of
people using NT for servers and all this asp stuff apparently works.
I could not get it to work. I wonder if I just did not buy the right
software or I was missing the page in the manual.
I know that my the owner of an ISP told his computer guys to start
using NT for the server. This was about 2 years ago. That lasted
about a week before his computer guys mutinied. They went back
to Unix.
I wonder if you take a fresh computer that has had nothing installed
on it. You then install the PAID FOR server, databases, etc. Then
devote this box as the server. I wonder then if it would all works as
it is supposed to.
My computer has had so many programs and installs of 95 and NT
of differing versions and upgrades of hard drives and oddball video
cards and sound cards etc., that I wonder if that is why none of the
windows internet software ever works (I must have spent about 40
hours on many different installs).
Would someone please say that their NT box works wonderfully as
a fully-functional webserver that is running asp, connecting to
databases, etc. etc. A static web server of course I can install.
Peter
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