Re: Running a website on the i

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

While you can't dismiss the possibility of someone hacking either the 
Apache Server, or the Zend Server, IBM/Zend do a very good job patching 
security related issues.  That said if the database access is set up 
properly within PHP and the user profiles that are used are properly set 
up with the appropriate authorities, your data is secure.  Is it more 
complicated that pure green screen but not that much so.

Also was it not stated up front that this is an internal only web site?  
At that point would the employees have a much easier route to the data 
than through the Wiki?

There are several Wikis available as open source that will run quite 
nicely with Zend.  The last one I set up took about 20 minutes and was 
functional within 30 minutes.    Do some research on the 
feature/function of the available Wikis, pick one, install it, and go 
for it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 11/4/2011 12:04 PM, 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  --