Migrating from Win98/PWS to *nix/Chilisoft

[stormbind]

Hi,

I tried the Apache forum with no luck.

Background: I'm in an unfamiliar city, with too few resources, armed with only an old laptop (Win98SE), and I need to complete a webdev contract :/

Target platform: Sun Cobalt, Apache, Chilisoft ASP, mySQL

Dev platform: Win98 ... lol

I'm very concerned about any slight differences between Microsoft & Chilisoft interpreters: If I develop the project on Win98/PWS, am I going to encounter problems when I upload it to Apache/Chilisoft?

Are there any alternatives to PWS? I looked at Chilisoft ASP but the current version requires WinNT 5.x

Please share your experiences and tips on this matter. Thanks very much for your time,

- Glen

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[vongrunt]

Personally I never used Chillisoft ASP, though common sense tells me 3 things:

- check for unsupported features, then avoid them.
- *nix filesystem is a bit different than FAT or NTFS. For starters, there are no drive letters
- Apache/*nix handle permissions ol'-fashioned way. Not much of a problem once you get used to it... unless you have to work with paranoid admin (03:00AM: "... Er, I can't edit .htaccess, can you run that chmod/chown thing please?")

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[ChrisHirst]

Not forgetting of course *nix is case-sensitive for filenames.

Chris.

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[Sheco]

Also be careful about what ActiveX/COM objects you use, they may or may not have implementations of these on your target platform.

The first thing I would do is try to get my hands on the ChiliSoft docs. Second I would look for a FAQ for developers that are converting code to run on ChiliSoft.