Re: Web CMS without a DB?

Stupid question, but if someone donated or offerred you at no increased
price, Linux hosting with database support would this make your life
easier or more complicated?

-Derek

Alan Dayley wrote:
> Joseph Sinclair said:
>
>>Which services are already running?
>>Some possibilities:
>>IIS web server
>>Apache web server
>>ASP services (you mentioned server-side JavaScript)
>>PHP
>>CGI
>>Perl
>>Others???
>
>
> Other than the server-side JavaScript, I don't know. It never came up
> until I got the idea to explore making my webmastering life easier. I'll
> need to find out.
>
>
>>What you can use depends on what you already have.
>>
>>That said, you can use XML as a hierarchical database structure if you
>>have some reasonable level of server-side code available. If you can
>>load in an XML library that supports XInclude, then you can even manage
>>it as a relational-hierarchical system (which gets really neat for a
>>simple CMS, especially if you build a really basic XLink setup for the
>>navigation structure)
>
>
> I'll explore those technologies. I was hoping for a "canned" solution but
> I obviously can't find what I need until I know what infrastructure I have
> available.
>
>
>>P.S. your local-client idea sounds more like a web-design package than a
>> CMS. Alternatively you could always just setup a local machine with a
>>false DNS to point to itself for the site you're building, run whatever
>>CMS you prefer there, and just do a quick web-crawl of that to get your
>>HTML pages and pipe them up to your real server...
>
>
> Now, that is an intereting idea. That could open things up to
> "everything" since I run the DB and CMS locally where I have full control.
> I'll think about that after I see what the server can give me.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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