Curious to see if there would be potential to host the EWB application on a *nix box.  In theory most things should run except database, which would then lead to question of either a *nix EDB server or a javascript backend to connect to a remote EDB hosted on Win environment.  Maybe connecting to MySQL on *nix?

Hi Lance,

<< Curious to see if there would be potential to host the EWB application on a *nix box.  In theory most things should run except database, which would then lead to question of either a *nix EDB server or a javascript backend to connect to a remote EDB hosted on Win environment.  Maybe connecting to MySQL on *nix? >>

I have a EWB app running on a Unix web server.  I haven't connected any EWB apps to a database yet but I'm hoping to connect some of them to MySQL databases.

EWB apps themselves can be hosted on anything as they're just bunch of standard web files : html+js+css.

Database access becomes bit more tricky : if you're using a web hosting service then writing a back-end with something like PHP+MySql should work fine and is supported by all hosting companies.

If you have your own virtual server (hosted or Amazon EC2 for example) and want to use EDB then you could try Wine - i have not tried it on any Unix but tested on some Linux distros and EDB Server ran just fine under Wine.

Alternatively Amazon EC2 free tier now offers a windows micro instance free for a year and while the instance is not very powerful it's likely adequate for running a small volume EDB Server for example

Raul

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Lance Rasmussen wrote:
Curious to see if there would be potential to host the EWB application on a *nix box.  In theory most things should run except database, which would then lead to question of either a *nix EDB server or a javascript backend to connect to a remote EDB hosted on Win environment.  Maybe connecting to MySQL on *nix?
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It's a virtual host using FreeBSD.  So PHP+MySQL is most likely the route.  Not my favorite DB though.  

I may be able to at least put the EDB server on a small Windows box that's locally hosted.

<< It's a virtual host using FreeBSD.  So PHP+MySQL is most likely the route.  Not my favorite DB though.   >>

I use MySQL for all of my websites, use Microsoft SQL Server a lot (not by choice) for contract work, but my favourite is EDB.