Aditionally you could create a ram disk with you php stuff, mount that in
/tmp/whatever read-write- and use that for your thttpd document root. May require root
access to mount the ramdisk, though.
On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 03:12 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I would use thttpd with php support compiled in, rather than a browser.
> That way you could use whatever the browser on the users system was- more
>comfortable for
> the user.
>
> difficulty is what port to run the server at (well, one of the difficulties...) but
>you
> could search for an unused unpriviliged port number.
>
> Easiest thing to do would be to use /tmp on the users system (is there a Windows
>equivalent? I
> honestly don't know) for the doc root etc. and then have the users browser look at
> http://127.0.0.1:10185/index.php (or whatever).
>
> I don't know if thttpd builds on windows, but i imagine I could get this working on
>linux in
> under a day.
> Database is a totally different story- I'd just go flat file, if I needed one.
>
> On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 10:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if it's possible to adapt the CGI version of PHP as a Netscape
> > plugin, or to associate the extension of php files to some kind of php
> > wrapper. This would require distributing a browser with the CD for this
> > specific CD, but it could work.
> >
> > For a Unix-only kludge, I found this page,
> > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
> > It seems to me, by playing with with the application associations, one
> > could get php to write to a temporary file, and then use netscape's
> > -remote openFile to read it. I imagine, though, that if this works, it
> > would be rather unstable.
> >
> > MySQL would be a whole 'nother can of worms.
> >
> > Just playing with ideas.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.artwells.com/
> > That which indicates nothing
> > introduces everything.
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Philip Apostol wrote:
> >
> > > Can I run a PHP/Apache/MySQL services on a CD-ROM. We have PHP scripts that
> > > handle queries on a large database. We would like to distribute it on a
> > > CD-ROM so they could access the database offline. Is it possible? Or are
> > > there any similar solutions for this? Im thinking of a text-file database
> > > and access it via javascript but have no much time to study on this. If php
> > > can be run on the cd-rom, that would be a better solution. But any
> > > solution you posted here will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Philip
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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