Re: Running a website on the i

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

But doesn't this open your i to hacking? If someone gets into your web
server on a stand alone box they only have access to the box but if it is
running on your i, they have access to all your business information or am
I missing something?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Kurt,
>
> that is not really an issue. Zend (PHP/MySQL) is available from IBM even
> as community so you should be able to copy the wiki php programs
> and the MySQL database with low hazzle.
>
> I ran several wikis or other PHP based projects on several i machines,
> but - to be honest - if ist only a small hosting, a simple linux box
> will do the job, too. (and more stable than a windows box).
>
> To host this on an i is good when you can combine this with native i data.
>
> Holger
> RZKH - IBM i hosting
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:24 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Subject: Running a website on the i
>
> Can anyone provide any helpful links for going about this?
> I searched a bit online and unfortunately wasn't using the right keywords
> or something.
>
> We currently have our wiki running on a Windows Server and boy is it
> annoying when it's rebooting.  I want to suggest having it run on a server
> that will never go down, but would like some documentation to provide.
>
> That said, what kind of IBM i overhead is there with a webpage?  At the
> moment it'd only be a wiki, and only accessible internally, which is less
> than 50 employees.
>
> We're on a Power 7, 7.1.
>
>
>
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