Development Environment

[enners]

Hi,

Just reading some of the posts on here is really helping me to learn loads. I'm trying to put together a web development environment on my IBM laptop. This is what I want set up:

Linux o/s (Red Hat v8 right now but may go to 7.3 if advised)
Apache http server(1.3.27)
Tomcat 3.3.x
My SQL/PostgreSQL
Poolman
JBuilder (or whatever)

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated, but specifically,would I be better off with RH 7.3 given what i want to do?

(would be better to know now rather then later =))

 

[danielhozac]

I'm using RedHat 8 on my development computer too. I find it to work very well.
The only change I would do to your setup would be to use Apache 2.0.x instead of 1.3.27. //Daniel

 

[enners]

Thanks Daniel,

If I use Apache 2.0 should I use that in conjunction with Tomcat 4.1 then ? The reason I ask is that there is a great deal of legacy jsp code and I dont know whech jsp specifications were used (maybe 1.1?) Is 4.1 backward compatible ? (sorry, not a linux question I know...)

P.S. I'm starting this afternoon so stay tuned to watch me screw it up =)

Enners

 

[danielhozac]

It is backwards compatible, but I haven't setup Tomcat with Apache 2 yet so I don't know about that. //Daniel