Re: FN-FORUM Making a database driven website portable

date posted 1st March 2001 10:13

If the distribution is via CD and the customers themselves won't be updating
or editing the information displayed, then simply capture the whole site as
HTML and distribute this.

Garth


>From: Marcus Bointon [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Making a database driven website portable
>Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:34:26 +0000
>
>on 1/3/01 8:34 am, Ray McGinty at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > I have built a website for a client which is mostly populated from a
> > PHP/MySQL backend. Its on a Linux server.
> > It is mainly lists of pdf documents which the customer can download from
> > the site, listed by application, by product type etc.
> >
> > Another company was producing something along the same lines on CD-ROM
> > using Director, but have run into contractual difficulties with the
> > client.
> >
> > My client likes the speed and simplicity of the website and has asked me
> > if I can easily copy the whole site to CD for distribution to customers
> > who don't have internet access. In fact, she asked if I could add a
> > button to the content manager so that my client can do it herself!
> >
> > I've been straining my brain on this one, but I don't think there's an
> > easy way to do this.
> >
> > Unless you know different...
>
>Well, as you probably guessed from my previous database message, I'm a
>CD-ROM database man, and recently I've been doing multilingual databases of
>PDF files...
>
>In general it's difficult to make web stuff run from disk in exactly the
>same way as it runs online - unless you run a local web server, which I've
>seen done. However, this is hard to set up (please wait while we install
>IIS
>and SQL7... What do you mean you don't have TCP//IP networking???),
>difficult for the user to understand, and of course completely avoids most
>of the advantages of running from CD in the first place.
>
>Something I can help with?
>
>Marcus
>--
>Marcus Bointon
>Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture
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