dan Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 Hi Guys, how are you all... Here is my scenario At the start of the new year I would like to launch this Student Are on My College's LAN. The url will be http://students.stourbridge.ac.uk This website will hopefully provide a variety of HTML services, and FTP Upload and Download section, a Board (powered by Invision Power Board) All this will be sitting on a local server with a P4 1.6hz and 1Gb of PC800 RDRAM, running Windows.NET Standard Server RC1 Ive never done any of this before so am quite nervous :unsure: With the HTML Services it would be useful if the kids could upload as well but i have no clue how i would put this into a web page... any ideas? BTW the server will be running PHP and MySQL. Plus the version of SQL Server MS ship with Win.NET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 thingsforjason Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 what would they upload/download? if you've never done any of this before it sounds like you might want to find someone at your school who has more experience and see if they want to team up. i'd look into php upload scripts, but you'll probably have more control over download/upload with the ftp program you end up using. is this service going to be endorsed by the school, or will you be running the server on something other than the school's network? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dan Posted December 16, 2002 Author Share Posted December 16, 2002 The kids would be uploading/downloading coursework... art/digital images/web pages... and the like... all new media related stuff.... the college has endorsed this and i have there full support... i will also be moderating it so they dont put up stuff that is innapropriate or questionable/illegal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fedr0 Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 All this will be sitting on a local server with a P4 1.6hz and 1Gb of PC800 RDRAM, running Windows.NET Standard Server RC1. I really don't suggest you to build a website based on a release candidate. Expecially because there's a time bomb, after 180 days it no longer works. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 john smith 1924 Veteran Posted December 16, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 16, 2002 that is a good point for one :) here are some great places for resources on php stuff- have a nose here (the top one is a piece of **** to follow) http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/php.php http://php.resourceindex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dan Posted December 16, 2002 Author Share Posted December 16, 2002 not to worry about the server chaps... if all goes through i should be getting RC2, Final, and Retail from MS as and when. Cause I subscribe to all there MSDN and TechNet stuff... thanks for the urls.. Mr Magoo... much appreciated... BTW That guy was really funny... shame its not on TV nemore... how blind could one guy be :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fedr0 Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 not to worry about the server chaps... if all goes through i should be getting RC2, Final, and Retail from MS as and when. Cause I subscribe to all there MSDN and TechNet stuff... That's not the point. You simply can NOT over install a newer version of a RC or beta over a previous one, it's not permited by Windows itself. Furthermore, are you gonna install SQL and restore the database everytime? That's stupid IMHO. I'll stick with a good Win2k server, forget that crap of IIS and go with Apache or Macromedia Coldfusion (which is a bit overpriced, but very effective) and MySQL. You can't go wrong with that. :) BTW, I'm subscribed to MSDN Universal... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 18, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 18, 2002 Not to flame, but use Linux. It's easier to setup/maintain and won't need to be reinstalled in a few months... And if you think it's that hard, download RedHat. You can have apache/php/mysql in no time :) To be honest, IIS + PHP is not a good combo, I don't consider it production quality. You may run into some problems with IIS and PHP in the scripts you try to install too. I REALLY would not recommend it. And running BOTH mysql and mssql at the same time is kinda bass ackwards. Pick one (mysql, becuase you'll find more scripts for it) and stick with it. ;) Hope I'm not being to assinine, it's just for production systems, PHP is best on a linux server or at least apache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hi Guys, how are you all... Here is my scenario
At the start of the new year I would like to launch this Student Are on My College's LAN. The url will be http://students.stourbridge.ac.uk
This website will hopefully provide a variety of HTML services, and FTP Upload and Download section, a Board (powered by Invision Power Board)
All this will be sitting on a local server with a P4 1.6hz and 1Gb of PC800 RDRAM, running Windows.NET Standard Server RC1
Ive never done any of this before so am quite nervous :unsure:
With the HTML Services it would be useful if the kids could upload as well but i have no clue how i would put this into a web page... any ideas?
BTW the server will be running PHP and MySQL. Plus the version of SQL Server MS ship with Win.NET
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