Re: Running a website on the i

Usualy the box running the web server has access to the i, so getting in
that box gives the hacker the access to all your business information.
And, unless you a re a real expert in security, it is easier to secure
an i than to "harden" a Linux or windows box.
In short: putting your server in the i will make it harder for a hacker
to get to you business.

Alan Campin wrote:

But doesn't this open your i to hacking? If someone gets into your web
server on a stand alone box they only have access to the box but if it is
running on your i, they have access to all your business information or am
I missing something?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Holger Scherer<hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Kurt,

that is not really an issue. Zend (PHP/MySQL) is available from IBM even
as community so you should be able to copy the wiki php programs
and the MySQL database with low hazzle.

I ran several wikis or other PHP based projects on several i machines,
but - to be honest - if ist only a small hosting, a simple linux box
will do the job, too. (and more stable than a windows box).

To host this on an i is good when you can combine this with native i data.

Holger
RZKH - IBM i hosting

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:24 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Running a website on the i

Can anyone provide any helpful links for going about this?
I searched a bit online and unfortunately wasn't using the right keywords
or something.

We currently have our wiki running on a Windows Server and boy is it
annoying when it's rebooting. I want to suggest having it run on a server
that will never go down, but would like some documentation to provide.

That said, what kind of IBM i overhead is there with a webpage? At the
moment it'd only be a wiki, and only accessible internally, which is less
than 50 employees.

We're on a Power 7, 7.1.



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