From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 16:14:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B85E37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from waha.hpu.edu (waha.hpu.edu [198.199.136.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54C743E65 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waichan@hpu.edu) Received: from nohea.admin.hpu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waha.hpu.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g6GNEll24967 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:14:47 -1000 (HST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: webct on freebsd? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:14:46 -1000 Message-ID: <571FCD9BF8258F4A80EB3ACA6CDC63FA01594318@nohea.admin.hpu.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: webct on freebsd? Thread-Index: AcIsfI/Sup6tOJQHShK94ATBERD64QAoJTfA From: "Wai Chan" To: "Tim Kellers" , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, webct should run on FreeBSD without problem. I could be wrong, but after plaing with it for a period of time, the webct campus edition is simply whole brunch of perl scrips (the version of perl is more important than anything else) and plain text files, and a apache web server with customized httpd.conf. There is a webct campus vista edition, which uses oracle db instead of plain text files, I have no knowledge about this edition. FreeBSD was officially supported by the first generation of webct. However, the latest version, webct only supports Solaris and Redhat (not all favors of linux, and FreeBSD is no longer listed as supported OS). If you are running webct on FreeBSD and if you need help from webct, then ... unless you are webct's $best$ customer. So, if you are stucked with x86 boxes and need to run webct, Redhat is your safe choice. We run webct and other apps with this rules I set: If not FreeBSD on x86, then Solaris on Sun. We are running our webct on a Sun E250 box. Good Luck! Wai. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Kellers [mailto:timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com]=20 Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 5:55 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: webct on freebsd? My division at work is considering splitting-off our non-credit and certificate students from the University-wide WebCT server --which currently hosts all Distance Learning students. Universitry Information Services has recommended we purchase a SUN box and install the SUN flavor of WebCT. However, they are so backlogged that it isn't even a possiblity until sometime in September (after the Fall semester has started). I have a spare --well, not really a spare, but a development box-- Dell PE 2500 (dual processor, 933MHZ each, with a gig of ram and 42 gigs free RAID 5 HD space) that's running FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE. I'd like to try and take a shot at installing WebCT on that box and, if possible, using it as the eventual production server to host our WebCT courses. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions as to how I might make that happen? ("Forget it, it's impossible!" comments are also welcome). For the record, this box also supports the Linux ABI (v 7.1.x) and SVR4, but I'm not sure if either of those features is even relavent. TIA Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message