Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or threewebdevelopment languages/environ...

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apache comes pre-installed on 99% of all AS400 servers in my experience.  It
runs "natively" as far as I am concerned as IBM has added their own hooks
outside of the base Apache HTTP server available from www.apache.org.  Note
that it simply runs under subsystem QHTTPSVR on the same hardware that your
green screen users are on (i.e. QINTER).

And the Apache server is pretty each to configure for RPG+CGI.  Here is the
config I use:

Listen *:8181

DocumentRoot /www/myrxs/htdocs

ScriptAliasMatch ^/MYRXS/(.*) /qsys.lib/MYRXS.lib/$1.pgm

<Directory /qsys.lib/MYRXS.lib>
  allow from all
  order allow,deny
  options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

The one thing I believe to be lacking is a "RPG CGI best practices"
book/course that helps you skip past all the yuck stuff that many have to
figure out for themselves (i.e. how do you access tables outside of the
library your RPG CGI is running in?).  Brad Stone you listenin' ?  ;-)

HTH,
Aaron Bartell


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dave Odom <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Raul,
>
> What if RPG is out of consideration?
>
> Your point about .Net requiring two or more servers caught my eye and made
> me wince.  But.. if one must use something like Apache for their
> environment/language to work, isn't that using two or more servers as well?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave