First Try at Creating Website

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:17:35 -0500
begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:

> David,
> 
> Muchos gracias.
> 
> I only intend to use the site as a place to look up information
> and on occasion, allow a member to enter their data into the
> "family tree".  I would like for them to be able to do this from
> anywhere in the world and securely at that. I still have a lot to
> learn about ssh, apache, etc.  I am using mysql on my intranet as
> a somewhat transactional database as I use it to log supplies on order
> and on hand, if that's what you mean by transactional. Nothing fancier
> than that.

Go with geneweb -- someone else mentioned it.

MySQL is not transactional.  It lacks atomicity, consistency, and
integrity.  It's basically a filesystem you can access with SQL commands. 
You'll be better off in the long run w/ PostgreSQL.  That said, you can
get limited transaction support from MySQL, but you need to compile it
with innodb, etc.

> 
> I got this idea this past weekend when I attended the funeral of the
> last matriach of the family and had all of this info in a dbase III
> program, but never got all of the info completed before she died and
> took a lot of the history with her.  There are other family members 
> who can provide some info and the idea is to provide a site that 
> would allow them to input data only and at the same look up information
> about our family. I will control access and compilation of the data, as
> I just want them to provide information and then I compile it into a
> sort of history book online.  Hope that makes sense.
> 
> I really appreciate your time.

no problem.  As you work on stuff, just fire away with the questions.

Read up on setting up Apache w/ SSL.  Read up on Geneweb w/ CGI.  This
will allow you to open port 443 so folks can connect encrypted to Geneweb
via the CGI interface.  

> 
> Best Regards,
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:36:24 -0500
> >begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:
> >
> >>[snip]
> >
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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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