Re^2: Passing cgi parameters from external script

Right now I don't have a web server to run my site from. I'm doing the site at home for a small business (my first venture into this sort of thing) and I'm just running it off my local host. Therefore, when I finish I plan to then start looking for web-server's to host the site and scripts. So I'm not sure there is any way I could use the standard web-server's authentication / authorization way of handling log-in without knowing where and how my site will be hosted. Unless there is a standard they all use. I know I will have to use a Windows server because the site makes extensive use of MS access which is what the business I am doing this for uses. But I'm not sure how to take advantage of things in terms of the server. All I know is what I have been working with in terms of perl/cgi stuff. Any suggestions for reading on an intro to this sort of thing?

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Re^3: Passing cgi parameters from external script by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 30, 2004 at 19:44 UTC
Sorry, Microsoft Windows web-servers are terra incognita for me. I run Apache servers on Windows systems and there is no reason why they couldn't access MS Access (other than that MS Access is not very multi-user friendly and it hardly warants to be called a database-server (it is more a glorified graphical front-end to their Jet-engine)). But I would really hesitate to use MS Access databases on a web-server, given that there are so many fine free database-servers available. As much will depend on what server you run your scripts on, I advise you to first start looking for a host before committing too much to a certain design as much may need to be re-written if the host does not support some (or all) of your requirements. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: Passing cgi parameters from external script by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jul 01, 2004 at 14:22 UTC
Any suggestions on good host that support cgi, will allow me to access as MS access database, and support SSL? I havn't looked around much yet but I was just wandering if there were any really good ones everyone suggests. Thanks.	[reply]