...someone comes along and pops WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki,
a bulletin board (phpBB3), a survey package (LimeSurvey), a time
tracking package (Kimai Time Tracking) and loads of other stuff without asking.
No one in our shop puts anything on the IBM i without clearing it with the administrators.
Before you know it the IT Director is putting in for a
costly upgrade and wondering why?
These packages have fairly small footprints. It would not require an upgrade to install a couple of the packages on the IBM i.
Our administrators definitely keep track of IBM i usage, and if they see anything getting to be a resource hog, we will quickly know about it. If we have so many requests for open source packages, or we have a package that gets extremely high use, then we can always move some or all of the packages off onto their own server. We would never be forced to upgrade the IBM i.
... taking into account that a number of these applications
require 24/7 operation which many houses running the i do
not offer?
None of the packages I mentioned require 24/7 operation. We have Drupal, WordPress, and Mediawiki installed on a research and development server, and the only time we touch them for administration is during normal business hours. You just don't need someone sitting around 24/7 to administer them.
Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maurice O'Prey
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:43 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP
Bryce and Kelly
I guess I'm used to the real world (or at least the people in charge of the
real world who pay the bills)?.
Let's say you have a one billion dollar a year turnover company running
their warehousing, despatch and finance systems on the i, these are mission
critical boxes and then someone comes along and pops WordPress, Drupal,
Joomla, MediaWiki, a bulletin board (phpBB3), a survey package (LimeSurvey),
a time tracking package (Kimai Time Tracking) and loads of other stuff
without asking. Before you know it the IT Director is putting in for a
costly upgrade and wondering why?
Might it not be better ROI to spend a few hundred bucks on a trial server
(if you don't already have one lying around). If any of the applications
then take on mission critical status you might THEN think about moving them
on to the i (taking into account that a number of these applications require
24/7 operation which many houses running the i do not offer?). That alone
rules it out aside from other security issues and stability issues.
Accepted it is a varied world where no one solution fits all. I'm going with
the detached server option for now.
- Maurice O'Prey
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bryce Martin
Sent: 10 December 2010 13:23
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work
without FTP
Why NOT run it on the i? If you have the space, memory, and cpw to support
it along with everything else then why have another box? Even if it is a
cheap linux distro?
Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777
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Kelly
I have nothing against Wordpress. I should have clarified my point by
saying
'Why run it on an i' or at least predict the Board of Directors reaction
to
the proposition?
Since Aaron has 'extinguished me' from further communication, and is not
listening, I would point out that the comment was mainly aimed at him and
his attempts! (thankfully he will not reply)
I agree with your point that Wordpress can have commercial benefits.
Regards
Maurice O'Prey (if I have not been filtered that is)
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kelly Cookson
Sent: 09 December 2010 19:58
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work
without FTP
We may soon get some commercial value out of WordPress.
Our company has a nice newsletter that gets mailed to several thousand
employees each month. The newsletter is professionally printed on glossy
paper with color graphics. We are looking at installing WordPress to
distribute the newsletter as an online publication. WordPress can be used
to
make professional-looking online publications.
Although we might still mail printed copies to employees who prefer to
receive it that way, it would save us money (publishing and mailing costs)
to get as many employees as possible to read the newsletter online via
WordPress.
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Maurice O'Prey
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:17 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work
without FTP
I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative
ease
And the commercial benefits are?
Hi all,
I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative ease
and now I want to install additional plugins. The issue is that if the
user
profile used by the currently running script doesn't have access to the
folder where the plugin is going to be installed, then it will prompt you
for FTP login information.
Here is an article that talks about the issue:
http://hecode.com/why-wordpress-asks-for-connection-info-when-i-try-to-insta
ll-new-plugin/
In the article then recommend creating a simple php script with the
following:
echo exec('whoami');
I did that, and it is executing successfully (no ZendServer error logs or
warnings) but it returns blanks, so that doesn't help. I have even gone
as
far as giving *PUBLIC all authority to the entire directory structure with
the following command (running V6R1):
CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(*PUBLIC) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
SUBTREE(*ALL)
Still no go.
Anybody else resolve this?
Aaron Bartell
midrange.com
