Since you are wanting to run apache I you can get a few free databases:
mySQL and Sybase. I am not familiar with mySQL, but sybase is pretty
good! With apache there are several modules writen to interface these
databases. With apache you can also put in mod_perl which will allow you
to get at the apache api with perl modules and cache regular perl scripts
for streamlined performance (perl rocks for this stuff).
mod_perl http://perl.apache.org
apache http://www.apache.org
sybperl(sybase drivers, and links to sybase):
http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/
i am not sure where to get mysql. And, somewhere out there (CPAN) are all
of the DBI,DBD drivers for all databases.
On Tue, 11 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need very general guidance for setting up an appropriate kind of web
> database. I want to make thousands of html files accessible to a user
> search by means of an appriate engine and web page interface, but I'm
> not certain about what kind of database to put these documents in.
>
> The search would be full text, and so based on indexing, and I'd also
> like the user to locate the documents based on a hierarchical subject
> tree (which is the case at present). It does not seem to me that a re-
> lational database would be appropriate, but what would be? XML does not
> seem useful either, because searches are full text and the subject hier-
> archy is very extensive and complex. I'd like to set it up under Apache
> on my local machine using open software (my project is entirely non-
> commercial).
>
> Haines Brown
>
