Unusual platforms for PHP (was: Hosting and Bandwidth) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Mar 2007

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Subject: Unusual platforms for PHP (was: Hosting and Bandwidth)
   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
   Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:47:51 -0800
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"	<cctalk at
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At 4:04 PM -0400 3/20/07, Bob Bradlee wrote:
 Tonights, ASU dinner meeting is about running PHP
with webaccess on 
the AS400 platform. I look forward to picking
some brains on the subject. IBMcollectables.com should not be hosted 
on a Compaq Proliant server, even if it is an old
almost classic, Dual Slot 1 PII-400's, SCSI RAID, 512 ECC Ram, in a 
rackmount case with dual supplies, there is
something just wrong about it :-)

Just some Food for thought ...
Comments are always welcome, sometimes ignored :)

Bob Bradlee
The Cave Mutterer 
I've been running PHP on my OpenVMS server for nearly 3 years now. 
It can add some interesting capabilities to platforms that wouldn't 
otherwise be able to perform certain services, at least not without 
writing new software.

I'd be curious to know which version of PHP is supported on the 
AS400, and if you have the opportunity to run MySQL (if so what 
version), as it seems to be required by a lot of the more interesting 
PHP apps.

On OpenVMS if the version requirements are met for PHP and MySQL you 
have a fairly good chance of getting things to work without to much 
effort.

	Zane

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