From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 14:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17238 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17233 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:12:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from shell.ainet.com (jmscott@shell.ainet.com [204.30.40.108]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA23312; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by shell.ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23568; for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 5 Dec 98 14:14:40 PST Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Scott" To: Forsberg Mail Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database integration question In-Reply-To: <000701be208d$9781db20$7345fed0@jforsberg> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Much of the answer would depend on what database you are going to be connecting to and what OS it's on. Front Page extensions do work fine on FreeBSD. There's even a port, do a make install and it downloads apache and the BSDI FP extensions and gets everything going. I believe that you can use PHP for the scripting side of things. ( see www.php.net for more info ) I personally haven't used it but I've heard/read many good things. You may want to talk to the guys at www.freebsdrocks.com I believe they are using mysql and php. I have used perl with mysql just a little bit and I've found that to be very nice. There's some good info on this at web monkey : http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/backend/tutorials/tutorial1.html It talks about using apache, perl, mysql together. The details are for Linux but I followed them with little modification for FreeBSD. ( Using FreeBSD ports and packages instead of rpm's and things like that. ) * Joseph M. Scott * jmscott@ainet.com * American InfoMetrics * Modesto, CA On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Forsberg Mail wrote: > We are an NT website development shop, and we are accostomed to using SQL Server and Active Server Pages and Visual Interdev for website/database integration. > > However, a new client of ours is running FreeBSD. > > What tools do you recommend we use for database integration? > I noticed that FrontPage was mentioned in your FAQ. Does this mean FreeBSD has FP Extensions? > > If it all possible, I want to stay away from Perl. However this may not be a possibility. ChiliSoft's ASP will not work with FreeBSD. > > Any help you can give us would be much appreciated. > > John Forsberg > Forsberg Multimedia > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message