Re: Database Options
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texte = John,Are you running two separate servers -- one for secure, the other for non-secure serving?If *NOT*, you can get rid of all your *other* database software and simply use the WebCatalog.acgi, because the CGI version will talk to both your secure and non-secure server apps when they are on the same machine. In fact, this is the recommended way of doing things when you're running a secure and a non-secure server on the same Mac.However, if you're running two separate Macs in order to use port 80 for your secure server, which is what you seem to be doing, then I would get one copy of Typhoon for every database on your non-secure server ... or buy another copy of WebCatalog for that non-secure server.Actually, if I were you I would probably take the approach of saving money instead, by putting everything on a single server and runnning all my secure and non-secure databases from the WebCatalog.acgi on that server.This would give you a free Mac to use for something other than web serving, and if you really want to speed up the performance of your site, you can use it to serve all the image files your non-secure web servers (which is normally used to serve the majority of pages on a web site anyways ... although I don't think that's the way you are doing it).Just get PostHaste and run it as an image server on the free Mac, and you will see a definite speed increase on your non-secure site... because when WebSTAR no longer has to serve your images, it is much faster. >Boy, it looks like I'm going to hog the List today. > >I am in a quandary. I have purchased WebCatalog for our Electronic Mall >segment of our Web servers. I did this after struggling with creating a >shopping cart system on Tango. > >With just a couple of exceptions I have been very pleased with the performance >and functionality of Webcatalog. I seem to be struggling with some of the >features necessary to tweak our vendor web sites. >g< > >While I have implemented WebCatalog on our secured server, I have a couple of >database offerings that have nothing to do with online shopping. I have >allowed these to remain as Tango acgi linked items on our unsecured server. > >For the past month, the Tango acgi seems to crash our unsecured server nearly >once per day. > >To remedy this situation I am considering the following alternatives: > >1) Use Typhoon on the unsecured server. I really would like to do this but it >seems that the software will only support one (1) database file and >I have more >than that I need to configure....all as unsecured, non-commercial offerings. > >2) Use the new FileMaker Pro 4.0 software. There might be a problem here in >that my preliminary reading of the beta docs seems to also indicate that this >will only allow one (1) database to be web published. In addition, >FMP resides >on my mail server Mac. > >3) Use the current SSL equipped WebCatalog on our secured server. My concern >here is that accessing our secured server requires the use of https with the >URL links and some older browsers seem to have problems with this. > >[Side question - can I configure Webstar/ssl to use port 80 and still ensure >that it will be displayed as a secured server? I would like to use the URL >
without having to specify the https at the >beginning.] > > >John Benn, PetsForum Group >On C From CompuServe - The Net's Best Thing For Pets & Animals > Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions 808-737-6499 http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/.
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John,Are you running two separate servers -- one for secure, the other for non-secure serving?If *NOT*, you can get rid of all your *other* database software and simply use the WebCatalog.acgi, because the CGI version will talk to both your secure and non-secure server apps when they are on the same machine. In fact, this is the recommended way of doing things when you're running a secure and a non-secure server on the same Mac.However, if you're running two separate Macs in order to use port 80 for your secure server, which is what you seem to be doing, then I would get one copy of Typhoon for every database on your non-secure server ... or buy another copy of WebCatalog for that non-secure server.Actually, if I were you I would probably take the approach of saving money instead, by putting everything on a single server and runnning all my secure and non-secure databases from the WebCatalog.acgi on that server.This would give you a free Mac to use for something other than web serving, and if you really want to speed up the performance of your site, you can use it to serve all the image files your non-secure web servers (which is normally used to serve the majority of pages on a web site anyways ... although I don't think that's the way you are doing it).Just get PostHaste and run it as an image server on the free Mac, and you will see a definite speed increase on your non-secure site... because when WebSTAR no longer has to serve your images, it is much faster. >Boy, it looks like I'm going to hog the List today. > >I am in a quandary. I have purchased WebCatalog for our Electronic Mall >segment of our Web servers. I did this after struggling with creating a >shopping cart system on Tango. > >With just a couple of exceptions I have been very pleased with the performance >and functionality of Webcatalog. I seem to be struggling with some of the >features necessary to tweak our vendor web sites. >g< > >While I have implemented WebCatalog on our secured server, I have a couple of >database offerings that have nothing to do with online shopping. I have >allowed these to remain as Tango acgi linked items on our unsecured server. > >For the past month, the Tango acgi seems to crash our unsecured server nearly >once per day. > >To remedy this situation I am considering the following alternatives: > >1) Use Typhoon on the unsecured server. I really would like to do this but it >seems that the software will only support one (1) database file and >I have more >than that I need to configure....all as unsecured, non-commercial offerings. > >2) Use the new FileMaker Pro 4.0 software. There might be a problem here in >that my preliminary reading of the beta docs seems to also indicate that this >will only allow one (1) database to be web published. In addition, >FMP resides >on my mail server Mac. > >3) Use the current SSL equipped WebCatalog on our secured server. My concern >here is that accessing our secured server requires the use of https with the >URL links and some older browsers seem to have problems with this. > >[Side question - can I configure Webstar/ssl to use port 80 and still ensure >that it will be displayed as a secured server? I would like to use the URL > without having to specify the https at the >beginning.] > > >John Benn, PetsForum Group >On C From CompuServe - The Net's Best Thing For Pets & Animals > Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions 808-737-6499 http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/.
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