Re: FN-FORUM CD Rom CGI

date posted 3rd January 2002 11:23

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Andrew Mottershead wrote:

> Hello there folks,
>
> I need to find some kind of 3rd party software or script or method
> which will let me run a data driven site (any format of data) from a cd
> rom. I've been looking at hand coding XML > XSLT > XHTML but am trying
> to find a cheap and dirty way to keep the costs down. (New client don't
> want to scare them off).
>
> The user should be able to browse products and add them to a shopping
> cart then print out an order form. This should also be able to be run
> from a server so work
>
> Even better would be something that worked in NS and Opera as well as IE
> and also on MAC and SGI IRIX, linux boxes - I know this would be a long
> shot.
>
> Any ideas?

If this is just for demonstration purposes, how about a bootable Linux/*BSD
CD that includes a copy of Apache bound to the loopback interface? No
license fees to pay, relatively compatible (though I guess you'll want to
use the VESA framebuffer device for X to maximise compatibility), does what
you want...

Printing could be trickier.

Could be quite an interesting project, actually... :)

> Happy new year.
> regards
> Andrew Mottershead

HTH,
Alex.
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