[Seaside] Re: VW, Seaside, CGIs and Apache

[Brett R. Taylor]

You will need the ability to run a headless version of Visualworks to 
use the perl relay behind Apache.  So if you have shell access, and 
adequate RAM, you should be able to do this.
Brett
Guenther Schmidt wrote:
> Avi,
>
> I want to write a WebApp for a friend of mine which is to be hosted on 
> web space he rented from an ISP.
>
> My first idea was to write it in
>
> 1. PHP in which I'm very experienced in,
> 2. or in Smalltalk, VW, Seaside because I know of 1) that PHP, well, 
> sucks!
>
> It is to be hosted in a typical LAMP environment, (Linux, Apache, 
> MySQL, Perl or PHP) but you can also host your own CGIs there too.
>
> I already got positive response from the VW mailing list, that this 
> can basicaly be done.
>
> Günther
>
> P.S. Congratulations to Seaside, it's realy great!
>
>
> Avi Bryant wrote:
>> On 5/8/05, Guenther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Colin,
>>>
>>> thanks, for clarifying that, I had hoped the answer wouldn't be no.
>>>
>>> However I'm still not 100% certain that it can't be done somehow. 
>>> True, the CGI would have to be kept alive between request, at least 
>>> for as long as there are valid sessions (600 seconds timeout). I'm 
>>> not sure that can't be done, even though I don't have a clue how (yet).
>>
>>
>> Perhaps it would be better if you explained what your goal is here: is
>> it to integrate Seaside/VW with an apache site?  That can certainly be
>> done, for example by using mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to forward certain
>> requests to a VW webserver.
>>
>> Avi
>
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