From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 13:19:38 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 3044937B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C16B43E65 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from 78lb019 (dyn216-8-149-246.win.mnsi.net [216.8.149.246]) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g95KN5p26662 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:23:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Message-ID: <000501c26cac$7838ac70$f69508d8@78lb019> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: Subject: using PERL on FreeBSD to get data from MS Access... any ideas? Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:19:10 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Has anyone successfully been able to work with Microsoft Access database-stored data from PERL on a FreeBSD box? Here's the deal: We've got a rather large Microsoft Access Database, the database is used to keep track of several leagues, their teams and players involved and all stats regarding any of the above. We need to find a way to securely access and display the data about the team/player stats on a per-league basis over the internet. Posting the entire database out onto public domain would allow anyone to download the whole thing and in essence 'steal' all the work done to create the project over the years. This is something that the DB creator obviously doesn't want to happen. Any ideas on how we might be able to create pages on the server-side (FreeBSD/Apache) of the webserver to dynamically display stats and such information to the public? I understand fully what's rewquired on the programming side as far as interfaces/etc, (could do this no problem if the database was in mysql personally). The short version: need to find a server-side solution (prefereably using PERL:DBI) which will allow a CGI application to access a Microsoft Access database. -- Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message