From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 16:01:05 2003 Return-Path: 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 8B8A637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.213.64.2] (firewall.tiadon.com [204.213.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976DC43FE5 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from rmc.tiadon.com by [204.213.64.2] ESMTP; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:01:04 -0500 Received: from applications.tiadon.com (mail.tiadon.com [172.16.18.172]) by bcec01.tiadon.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id M49GC2V7; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:01:04 -0500 Received: from firewall.tiadon.com ([204.213.65.142]) by applications.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:01:07 -0500 Received: from [204.213.65.142] by firewall.tiadon.com via smtpd (for mail.tiadon.com [172.16.18.172]) with ESMTP; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:01:02 -0500 Message-ID: <083a01c340ed$c79ae5b0$1b41d5cc@nitanjared> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , "sanketh sangam" References: <20030702201929.79497.qmail@web12604.mail.yahoo.com> <07e301c340ec$1159e770$1b41d5cc@nitanjared> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:00:47 -0500 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which server-side programming should i choose. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:01:05 -0000 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "sanketh sangam" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:48 PM Subject: Re: Which server-side programming should i choose. > From: "sanketh sangam" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:19 PM > Subject: Which server-side programming should i choose. > > > > I have a Apache webserver on FreeBSD machine. I think > > mySQL is also installed(I do not know how to check if > > mySQl is installed on that sytem). > > I am planning to put a user authentication to access > > my webpages in the server. For that i need to write > > server-side programming. Since there are any > > server-side softwares(PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl........) ,I > > am confused as to which one would be better for Apache > > and freeBSD. > > Instead of going for those server-side programming, > > should I go for HTTP authentication method. I am > > confused. Any kind of help would be appreciated. > > > Not much to do with FBSD, but ..... > > PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more > secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. > > Beautiful C-like syntax (/usr/src/* might even make > more sense to you after learning it...) great user > community. > > Kevin Kinsey, > DaleCo, S.P. OK, once more I post before getting the full context. Bill Campbell's suggestion is good, too. PHP might be overkill if *all* you want to do is limit access to certain areas/pages. But, if you *want* to also have interactive content, PHP's great; and it has native functions to do the HTTP authorization, as well as giving you other options in re: authorization. KDK