On 29 Aug 98, at 21:05, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
> My company asked me to find out what server would be best to set up a small
> (10-20 people) Web server on an NT machine. This will be an intranet solely
> for the use of a small group of developers, administration folks, and tech
> writers.
>
> Any suggestions?
Trash the NT O/S. Go to BestBuy and buy RedHat linux 5.1 for under
US$45.00. It comes with everything you need. EVERYTHING you need for
less than US$45.00. How can anyone argue with that? And it is
really quite easy to install. That is the point of getting RedHat.
I personally downloaded mSQL and mySQL and installed those -- and
again, at NO COST other than time to download. I now have a 20-30
user intranet running on a 486 dx66 with 32 meg of ram on an old 1.2
hard drive from years ago and a non-descript motherboard.
But if you stick with NT then why not give Apache for NT a try? I
heard that IBM supplied some info on improving Apache on windows. I
recently downloaded the Apache for NT on my NT box and it was a snap
to setup and run. The cgi's are operating. I tried the MASSIVE ms
solution that I received on CD and it was a pain; a big pain. I never
did get the cgi's to work. The asp pages never worked -- and they
came with the whole setup.
I would then install perl on your NT. check out active-state (they
are really active). You should be able to use perl/dbi and an
access database. I use perl/dbi for access databases as I find it
easier and much quicker than firing up Access.
Peter
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