Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: Wai Chan <waichan@hpu.edu> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>, <el@njit.edu>, <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: RE: webct on freebsd? Message-ID: <20020716212703.R42299-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <571FCD9BF8258F4A80EB3ACA6CDC63FA01594318@nohea.admin.hpu.edu>
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Thanks for the reply, Wai.
I believe we are running Campus edition of WebCT on our main production
server --from what I learned at a meeting I attended on Monday, the Oracle
DB version isn't available (to NJIT, anyway) until sometime in September.
With the availability of that upgrade being on or just after the beginning
of the new semester and the history of WebCT "upgrades" breaking the
extant production version rather spectacularly (and egregiously for the
admin of the WebCT box), it's doubtful that anyone is going to rush into
the new version. In fact, if I can get Campus Edition to run at a
production level, I see no reason to rush into a newer version.
Have you ever used WebCT under Redhat emulation? Do you (or anyone else)
know if that is feasible/preferable? I'm fairly sure that the current
WebCT we are using is a bit more than just perl based. I think the "chat"
functions are all java applets.
Thanks for you help and input,
Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Wai Chan wrote:
> 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]
> 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
>
>
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