From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 16:39:00 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 563A137B401 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C7843F75 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.164.197.193] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10) id 19e1I2-0004yd-00; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:38:59 -0600 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:38:52 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <274F2910-BA42-11D7-BB86-0003931BED80@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.4 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASP on FreeBSD/Apache - most recent, stable and viable solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:39:00 -0000 On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 08:34 US/Mountain, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > You are preaching to the choir as we use Perl/PHP to accomplish all > our server > based programing and scripting. Telling clients however that they need > to > migrate their code over to Perl/PHP just means we lose them to someone > supporting windows/ASP. > I wonder about the viability of running one of the ASP things on your server to support ASP for those dumb people who insist on using it. You may get the scripting language but don't most developers also take advantage of various COM (or whatever they are called now) objects in their scripts and these only work under Windows? What good is the scripting language part when the building blocks themselves won't run? After looking into this a year or so ago that is the conclusion I came to at least... If you make this work for you, post your experience please! best regards Chad