Note:AOLserver does not work with LinuxPPC as of March 30, 1998. The Mac person on the AOLserver team informed me that there are no current plans to support AOLserver but that he "wants to get it running on his G3 at home." So...that lame 7200 gathering dust at work isn't going to be a good test machine for AOLserver.
-- Thomas Leachmere, March 30, 1998
I like Patrick's recipe, but I have a few ingredient changes that work for me in April, 98.Linux (RedHat 5.0) AOLserver 2.3 (beta4) PostgreSQL 6.3.1
AOLserver's built-in support for Postgres is high notch work. All of Philg's examples from Database-backed Web sites run under the AOL/Postgres combo except for the ones requiring the full-text indexing of Illustra/PLS. I regularly have uptimes in the months, with a moderatly loaded PPro 200.
For those that don't have the $500 to spend on Solid WebEngine for Linux to use with AOLserver, PostgreSQL (versions 6.2.1 and later) works nicely.
-- Lamar Owen, April 20, 1998
I would like to suggest and alternate recipe. As far as freeware tools go, You might want to look into PHP3, it fits the bill of a "Dynamic Page Language". Its free, well supported, runs on most platforms, I think there is even a Win32 version. It runs as an Apache-Mod (so its fast) and has a lot of hooks into Databases built in. You see it used alot with mySQL, put works well with other SQL databases.
-- chuck freitas, November 12, 1998
Just as an FYI, AOL Server 3.0 is now open source. This, along with improvements in open source database systems, expands the possibilities for db-backed web sites.Thanks, AOL! Thanks also to Philip, who I'm sure had more than a little influence in this decision. ;-)
-- Frank Wortner, September 1, 1999
I've done this, though not quite in the way suggested (the FastCGI thing sounds like a hack, in particular). Apache + mod_perl + DBI + DBI::Pg + postgresql works fine. That said, the project I've developed on this will be migrated to MySQL, since (roughly speaking) it's mainly SELECTs and the overhead of having a "proper" database is undesirable.
I don't know much about Tcl, other than a lasting (and irrational) dislike engendered by the ugly "make xconfig" tool in the Linux kernel source. So I can't comment on how to do things this way. But the perl interface is quite neat (you can even make it object oriented, though I would question whether you would want to do this in many case.
-- Chris Lightfoot, September 18, 1999