I've set up PHP on my Linux box before, and it's not really very hard at
all, although if you're compiling the thing as an Apache module it can
be a right mess to get it to locate the required config scripts that
Apache's supposed to provide. I spent about a week getting it to compile
and install the first time around. My current setup is just installed
straight off my Slackware 8 CDs - much easier!
As for Jakarta/J2EE, I assume you're talking about getting JSP and
Servlets up and running on Apache. That's really not easy to do, unless
they've changed it. I don't have much personal experience, but where I
was working over the summer my boss spent a great deal of time
attempting to get Tomcat running as a helper for Apache, and never quite
managed it. In the end we just ran Tomcat standalone on a different
port, which is all very well for JSP-only testing, but we couldn't do
anything mixing it with other scripting languages, and Tomcat's not good
enough at serving other types of pages to be useable as the primary web
server on a live site. Thankfully the hosting for the actual site was
being handled by another company who knew how to make it work. Part of
the problem was the documentation being outdated - that may have
changed, however.
And I prefer PHP infinitely, because I hold an unreasoning prejudice
against Java. What a shame my group project this year is implemented
using JSP and Servlets. At least I won the argument about MySQL. I think.
Jason wrote:
>Hi List.
>
>
>It may be soon that our company abandons MS on servers for Webby stuff.
>
>At least!!
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>Penguins seem to loom bright on the horizon. :)
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>Just as a anyone got any experiences with
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>Implementing Jakarta /J2EE on Linux
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>Also PHP?
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>Which one if any did you prefer??
>
>Cheers
>jason
>
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