Re: Home page options for Apache on IBMi

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would triggers on the relevant data files be a starting place?  There 
would be a need to consider if changes come in a flurry of change 
(batches of changes) or if the changes are random and sporadic.  Another 
possibility would be that changes be sent to a dataqueue and be 
processed as data arrives.



On 7/16/2015 9:03 AM, Joe W Holt 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.
>
>
> ***
> Regards,
> Joe W Holt
> Sr Programmer/Developer
> Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
> 405.427.8181