Re: Home page options for Apache on IBMi

A index page on the apache can either be served as a static file or from
a CGIDEV2 program.

That is the short version

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Joe W Holt <joe.holt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm running the Apache server on our IBM i that serves our public data as
well as our intranet apps. Everything is static with the exception of our
cgi programs. Never considered other options like PHP since up to this
point everything can be done with RPG/CGIDEV2 if it isn't static. Now I
have need of dynamic data on our home page. This data doesn't necessarily
change daily but would need to reflect any changes when they are made in
our physical files. In this environment would you suggest an Apache
include
call to a cgi application or make the entire home page dynamic getting rid
of the static index.html. If the entire home/index page went dynamic would
I have to give the call a dot three extension for this to work? I've
noticed PHP sites have the .php extension. I do realize that if I use an
Include statement it changes the extension from html to shtml which
prompts
what extension, if any, would be needed for a CGI home page.

I've been hesitant to reach out to this group for topics such as this. If
this is the wrong forum for this please let me know. Thanks to Kelly and
her SPA thread that prompted some rather good conversations regarding
options that aren't necessarily 400 related but is served from the 400 I
figured I'd give it a shot. I really enjoyed the topic and the thoughts of
everyone who contributed. Some resources were given that I will most
definitely benefit. I'm in a small shop and the only exposure I get to
advances in tech on the 400 is through my own personal research and self
education. It's hard to decide what things I should try to learn to use on
our server without hearing from others about joys and pitfalls of trying
it
on the 400. I pretty much have free reign to use whatever I want as long
as
licensing isn't financially onerous.


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Regards,
Joe W Holt
Sr Programmer/Developer
Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
405.427.8181
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