Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:14:46 -1000 From: "Wai Chan" <waichan@hpu.edu> To: "Tim Kellers" <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: webct on freebsd? Message-ID: <571FCD9BF8258F4A80EB3ACA6CDC63FA01594318@nohea.admin.hpu.edu>
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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]=20
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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