The evil that I do

Post #183,355 by broomberg 11/7/04 12:41:54 PM Reply	The evil that I do I need to run ASP web scripts on Linux. These are old, using minimal features of ASP. I can't kill them totally since I depend on a Web monkey for certain ongoing pages. In order to do that, I need to run ChiliSoft. In order to run ChiliSoft, I need RH 7.3. Blech. In order to run 7.3, for my initial test/devel, on my laptop, I've installed a RH 7.3 instance in VMWare under windows XP-Pro. Which might just work. After all, I need IE when testing against the "Web Server", so all in one box on my lap is helpful. Note: I also have a Suse 9.1 Pro on a partition of the laptop (dual boot), and I have WinXP installed in a VMWare paritition on that. But native Win video is SO much better, I won't even consider using the native Linux at this point. As I install the "machine", it is interesting. I have the 3 ISOs on disk. So when it asks me to insert a new disk, I just assign the next file. I figure for development I'll take several system snapshots (file copies!). I need to install a vanilla 7.3 system. Snap! Then I need to intall the ChiliSoft. Snap! Then I need to install the particular PostGres they claim to work with. Snap! This way I'll have a quick rollback when I screw up the next step. When I actually go to install a REAL RH 7.3 Web server, what gotchas do I need to look-out for? Any security issues associated with this particular software? I don't see any recent vulns but that may be just because it is not as heavily used as it once was. After all, Sun only supports it running 7.3 or on their own OS.
Post #183,383 by deSitter 11/7/04 6:46:43 PM Reply	gosh that seems complicated -drl
Post #183,398 by broomberg 11/7/04 8:38:42 PM Reply	Yup. It IS! But it seems to work. I've ported about 1/2 the ASP scripts so far. Minimal changes to make them work (DSN, case issues, etc), but I still have to do an Apache install from scratch in order to setup the Secure web server. I think. I've given it about 20 hours so far, which is far better than the several week effort that moving it all to PHP would cost, along with the fact I MUST continue supporting ASP in order for our web monkey to continue to work.
Post #183,388 by folkert 11/7/04 6:55:41 PM Reply	goto http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ Take a good look there. [link\|http://www.fedoralegacy.org/\|http://www.fedoralegacy.org/] They only are supporting 7.3 and 9.0. They suggest everyone update/upgrade to those versions to simplify the support. Since there was no body interested in any other version any how. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source] Here is an example: [link\|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/\|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
Post #183,399 by broomberg 11/7/04 8:39:22 PM Reply	Thanks Bookmarked for when I setup the real server (as opposed to the VMWare one)

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