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

Im listening. I thought the OP already said no RPG. Which is too bad. I'm
not going to try and fight. This thread will go on long enough by itself...
haha!

Happy to answer any questions here or privately.

As far as libraries outside of your CGI library, I recommend that. And
setting up a dynamic library list library is simple (and I have one I use
with all my customers). It makes it easy to set up prod/devo/test
environments too.

Best Practices.. yes, there are a few but not everyone will always agree.
And, CGI RPG best practices normally are 90% RPG best practices. :) It's
just RPG! And again, differ from programmer to programmer.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:08 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the latest thinking of the best two
orthreewebdevelopment languages/environ...


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

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