Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here?

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2011


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texte = > I haven't gotten any real help. I did 3 absolute vanilla starts = today. Nadda. I've provided every single detail of every step I've = done, and I got zilch. I'm back at zero. No progress whatsoever. >=20 > But you know the real issue is that I am a developer, I don't want to = be a server administration. So I'm really fed up having to set this = sh*t up just so I can run the stuff I develop. Because most WebDNA = hosts charge a relative fortune a month so I'm having to provide hosting = to keep clients interested and keep doing what I'm doing. >=20 > I got really excited about WebDNA7 and invested a lot of time into it. = Hours. And all of it was down the drain. Its a BIG LOSS for me and = it's going nowhere. And yeah, I'm fed up because if I was using PHP, = Perl, or Ruby, I wouldn't be dealing with this. I would be developing = and making money. Instead I'm losing money. >=20 > I either spend the rest of my night learning a new OS and web server = (say CentOS 6 and lighttpd because that's the only thing I've heard that = works), or I go back to using an out-of-date OS and pay out of pocket = for a 6.2 license of WebDNA so I can actually get back to work. Either = way, money out of my pocket. =20 >=20 > If I blame anybody, I blame myself. For trying to use WebDNA 7 on the = server of my choice and for sticking with WebDNA for as long as I have. =20= Well, that is frustrating!! True empathy here. You'll just have to do = whatever you decide that you have to do. But I am guessing it will be = faster to figure this out than to jump ship entirely. (?) BTW, there are hosts who will run webdna7 for $20/month (IIRC; All my = clients are still on webdna 6). CentOS 6 and lighttpd are not the only ones that work. As I said, I am = developing using webdna7 on MacOS 10.6 (Apache), and it works fine = AFAICT (I did not setup virtual hosts though, so YMMV). Given your situation, why not just host with a commercial webdna host = (webdna 6, on *whatever*... and let them upgrade/configure when the time = comes), and be done with it? =20 -G= Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Stuart Tremain 2011)
  2. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  3. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Stuart Tremain 2011)
  4. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  5. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Govinda 2011)
  6. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (frank@cwolfe.com 2011)
  7. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  8. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Matthew Bohne 2011)
  9. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Govinda 2011)
  10. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  11. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  12. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (christophe.billiottet@webdna.us 2011)
  13. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (christophe.billiottet@webdna.us 2011)
  14. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  15. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (christophe.billiottet@webdna.us 2011)
  16. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  17. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  18. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Govinda 2011)
  19. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  20. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Govinda 2011)
  21. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  22. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  23. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  24. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
  25. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (Kenneth Grome 2011)
  26. Re: [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (christophe.billiottet@webdna.us 2011)
  27. [WebDNA] Seriously what is wrong here? (aaronmichaelmusic@gmail.com 2011)
> I haven't gotten any real help. I did 3 absolute vanilla starts = today. Nadda. I've provided every single detail of every step I've = done, and I got zilch. I'm back at zero. No progress whatsoever. >=20 > But you know the real issue is that I am a developer, I don't want to = be a server administration. So I'm really fed up having to set this = sh*t up just so I can run the stuff I develop. Because most WebDNA = hosts charge a relative fortune a month so I'm having to provide hosting = to keep clients interested and keep doing what I'm doing. >=20 > I got really excited about WebDNA7 and invested a lot of time into it. = Hours. And all of it was down the drain. Its a BIG LOSS for me and = it's going nowhere. And yeah, I'm fed up because if I was using PHP, = Perl, or Ruby, I wouldn't be dealing with this. I would be developing = and making money. Instead I'm losing money. >=20 > I either spend the rest of my night learning a new OS and web server = (say CentOS 6 and lighttpd because that's the only thing I've heard that = works), or I go back to using an out-of-date OS and pay out of pocket = for a 6.2 license of WebDNA so I can actually get back to work. Either = way, money out of my pocket. =20 >=20 > If I blame anybody, I blame myself. For trying to use WebDNA 7 on the = server of my choice and for sticking with WebDNA for as long as I have. =20= Well, that is frustrating!! True empathy here. You'll just have to do = whatever you decide that you have to do. But I am guessing it will be = faster to figure this out than to jump ship entirely. (?) BTW, there are hosts who will run webdna7 for $20/month (IIRC; All my = clients are still on webdna 6). CentOS 6 and lighttpd are not the only ones that work. As I said, I am = developing using webdna7 on MacOS 10.6 (Apache), and it works fine = AFAICT (I did not setup virtual hosts though, so YMMV). Given your situation, why not just host with a commercial webdna host = (webdna 6, on *whatever*... and let them upgrade/configure when the time = comes), and be done with it? =20 -G= Govinda

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