On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Graham Anderson wrote:
Is there anything cross-platform out there that can act as a stand
alone web server for CD-ROM delivery ?
Would like to hook up my QT projects to a localhost database that
speaks php/mysql.
On the PC side, you have dwebPro. Wonder if there is a cross platform
equivalent ?
Or, is there an app like dwebPro that has Windows and Mac versions ?
Depending how savvy you are with Apache, MySQL and PHP you could bundle
this yourself - all these components work on both platforms. You'd have
different binaries for each platform though, unlike Dick's suggestion,
and you'd basically be "rolling your own". I'm not aware of any such
prebuilt packages for both OSX and Windows from a single source.
Certainly all these tools, though, can be sandboxed and run as
components in a large app without having to leave a big mess behind.
That said... why? How about cut out Apache and MySQL for starters,
since both are probably unnecessary for a CD-ROM app (you're not going
to be *writing* any data, just querying... and Apache is only used as a
front-end to PHP). Instead, pick a scripting language like Python which
can provide it's own http server and has SQLite support. That way
you've only got one component (Python, or PHP... not sure if PHP can
host it's own Web server though) to bundle... no separate Web server to
start up, no database server to start up. SQLite is a nice embeddable
SQL database, more suited to CD-ROM. Python has good XML support,
though I'm not trying to push Python particularly - it just seems more
suited to the job than Apache+MySQL+PHP.
At very least, I'd look at skipping MySQL and using SQLite.
