Re: [WebDNA] [BULK] Mac OS X LION has no FastCGI
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texte = > It seems like Apple has chosen not to include FastCGI as > an option in Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X Lion Server. Big deal. Hardly anyone uses Mac servers any more these days anyways, do they? Even if they do, why bother upgrading just because a new version is released? If the version you're currently using works fine, just keep using it! Or better yet, why not switch to Linux? The vast majority of the world's web servers run Linux these days anyways. Maybe you should try it. Then you won't have to worry about Apple's strange decisions any more. I'm actually surprised that Apple is still producing and marketing servers. I heard that they pulled the plug on that division and were no longer producing or selling server hardware or software ... but maybe they just cut the server division's funding so much that the dev team didn't have the resources to include FastCGI. Apple has strangely abandoned other technologies while they were still in heavy use too, so I'm not surprised about this. But I fail to see why you're so determined to stick with Mac servers ... Is there something you cannot do on a Linux server that you can do on a Mac server? Or is it just that Linux is a new and different platform that you do not really want to learn? Because believe me, it's not that hard ... When Apple refused to stand behind the last desktop computer I bought from them several years ago, I abandoned Apple in favor of Linux -- not only as a desktop computer but also as a server. It was the best decision I ever made in my life as a web developer and server admin. Since then I have never felt that I had a good reason to go back to MacOS. And I was one of the biggest die-hard Mac fans you could possibly have known back then, so it was NOT a simple decision for me to switch! Yet after I made the switch I realized how much I was missing in the Mac-only environment -- and how much more it was costing me financially. From that point on I have always felt very, very good about my decision to switch. > Knowing that the Lion has just been set free, I would > like to ask WSC on their position; what can we expect > from your side... I'm not WSC but my guess is that your choices are simple: 1- Write your own FastCGI module for your Lion server so you can use WebDNA 7. 2- Keep using WebDNA 6.2 on your Lion server so you do not need FastCGI. 3- Get a Linux server and run WebDNA 7 and future versions of WebDNA on it. 4- Abandon WebDNA in favor of some other server side scripting language that will run on your Lion server. 5- Retire so you don't have to reply on companies like Apple or WSC to do what you want them to do any more. 6- Another option I have not considered ... ??? Good luck whatever you do. :) Sincerely, Kenneth Grome
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> It seems like Apple has chosen not to include FastCGI as > an option in Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X Lion Server. Big deal. Hardly anyone uses Mac servers any more these days anyways, do they? Even if they do, why bother upgrading just because a new version is released? If the version you're currently using works fine, just keep using it! Or better yet, why not switch to Linux? The vast majority of the world's web servers run Linux these days anyways. Maybe you should try it. Then you won't have to worry about Apple's strange decisions any more. I'm actually surprised that Apple is still producing and marketing servers. I heard that they pulled the plug on that division and were no longer producing or selling server hardware or software ... but maybe they just cut the server division's funding so much that the dev team didn't have the resources to include FastCGI. Apple has strangely abandoned other technologies while they were still in heavy use too, so I'm not surprised about this. But I fail to see why you're so determined to stick with Mac servers ... Is there something you cannot do on a Linux server that you can do on a Mac server? Or is it just that Linux is a new and different platform that you do not really want to learn? Because believe me, it's not that hard ... When Apple refused to stand behind the last desktop computer I bought from them several years ago, I abandoned Apple in favor of Linux -- not only as a desktop computer but also as a server. It was the best decision I ever made in my life as a web developer and server admin. Since then I have never felt that I had a good reason to go back to MacOS. And I was one of the biggest die-hard Mac fans you could possibly have known back then, so it was NOT a simple decision for me to switch! Yet after I made the switch I realized how much I was missing in the Mac-only environment -- and how much more it was costing me financially. From that point on I have always felt very, very good about my decision to switch. > Knowing that the Lion has just been set free, I would > like to ask WSC on their position; what can we expect > from your side... I'm not WSC but my guess is that your choices are simple: 1- Write your own FastCGI module for your Lion server so you can use WebDNA 7. 2- Keep using WebDNA 6.2 on your Lion server so you do not need FastCGI. 3- Get a Linux server and run WebDNA 7 and future versions of WebDNA on it. 4- Abandon WebDNA in favor of some other server side scripting language that will run on your Lion server. 5- Retire so you don't have to reply on companies like Apple or WSC to do what you want them to do any more. 6- Another option I have not considered ... ??? Good luck whatever you do. :) Sincerely, Kenneth Grome
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