PHP for NetWare Beta Released

Twintop writes "Taken from the PHP.net homepage: 'A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the Novell Developer Kit site. This version is based on the 4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.' --- Well, even if it is an old version, it's better than nothing for NetWare peeps."

Comments

Re:Good, or bad.

[AndyDeck]

I almost hate to bite on such an obvious troll... but I'd hate to be running anything BUT Netware on anything larger than an 30-pc network. Netware does a fine job of running enterprise-class file and print services. NDS/eDirectory is still THE choice for enterprise directory services, plus it can be hosted off of NT/2K/Linux/Solaris in addition to its native Netware.

I see the point of PHP on Netware as just another option - you can already run Apache & Tomcat on Netware, they are even running the new management pieces of Netware 6. You also already have Perl and Java... and with the licensing model of Netware 6 (user-based, not server- or connection- based as in the past) you can run as many servers as you need. Not really a huge consideration if you have the skills to run Linux, but much cheaper than purchasing 2K or XP + CALs just to run a simple website.

I don't see why you are mentioning BorderManager & port forwarding, though. Yes, perhaps a rabid Novell advocate would refuse to run anything else for the firewall (I am a strong believer in best-of-breed - NT/2K etc do have their place in application hosting) - but why would you need to 'forward port 80' for your linux+apache+php? Unless you think a site can have only one hostname or some such nonsense. I'd use iChain over BorderManager, anyways. I see BorderManager as more of an outbound (forward prox) solution, whereas iChain is targeted more at inbound traffic (reverse proxy).

Their latest products are rather neat - we're just scratching the surface here. If you haven't taken a look *recently*, you really have no idea.