Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-25 Thread Quentin Hartman
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ed Sawicki > > > Ed > > 1. The customer wants users to be able to contribute content >to their Web server, which runs Apache and MySQL on Linux. >Most of the time, this means users saving PDF documents >to the Web server so other users can access them v

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Ewan
Brian Derr wrote: > I really dislike the idea of a Samba share being the DocumentRoot. I do like > Drew's idea of an SVN repository. How important is the PDF file format to > them? Would it be easier (more appropriate) to use a wiki to create the > documents? I haven't researched it, but I'm willin

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-25 Thread Brian Derr
I really dislike the idea of a Samba share being the DocumentRoot. I do like Drew's idea of an SVN repository. How important is the PDF file format to them? Would it be easier (more appropriate) to use a wiki to create the documents? I haven't researched it, but I'm willing to bet there are some wi

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-24 Thread drew wymore
> > Ed > > 1. The customer wants users to be able to contribute content >to their Web server, which runs Apache and MySQL on Linux. >Most of the time, this means users saving PDF documents >to the Web server so other users can access them via their >browsers. > >He has Samba r

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread m0gely
Ed Sawicki wrote: > m0gely wrote: >> Ed Sawicki wrote: >> >>> a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. >>> The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be >>> accessed directly from the Internet. However, their >>> "private network" is not private in the sens

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
m0gely wrote: > Ed Sawicki wrote: > >> a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. >> The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be >> accessed directly from the Internet. However, their >> "private network" is not private in the sense of NAT >> and RFC19

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread m0gely
Ed Sawicki wrote: > a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. > The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be > accessed directly from the Internet. However, their > "private network" is not private in the sense of NAT > and RFC1918 private addressing.

[PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
I have an associate who consults for a living. He would like objective feedback from a variety of other IT folks so he can present his customer with recommendations that are considered to be industry best practices. He would appreciate it if knowledgeable IT people could comment on the following it