On 30 Aug 98, at 21:54, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> I have to admit that ASP offers a really nice feature... the
> possibility to mix in the same file HTML and a server side scripting
> language, but I've heard there are scripting languages on unix
> plattaform that offer the same feature (there is also an ASP clone).
Unless I am wrong the real advantage of ASP is that it runs in the
Server and not as a separate process. It is simple enough to stick a
bunch of exec calls in html to create pages on the fly. There are
plenty of scripting languages in the unix world. I simply use the
basic ssi and perl.
But the problem is forking so much when using standard cgi. ASP does
not do that.
The most popular way of avoiding this in the unix world seems to be
mod_perl with Apache. From what I have read this is mandatory on
popular sites.
> I don't know how it is easy to connect to a DB with Linux scripting
> language but with ASP is very easy... you should ask to other
> members...
If you must pass parameters to the query on-the-fly then you need
some embedded language that I have not used (I know of no way to pass
parameters via ssi). I usually just make the url a call directly to
a program rather than an html file with something embedded in it.
I for one would really like to hear more about setting up an NT
intranet. What does it cost? Can you use such a machine as intranet
server and also for other purposes? Should you devote one machine to
that purpose (I think so)? Will that machine also hold the rdbms and
all other programs or will you use separate boxes?
Peter
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