I want to create a dynamic website that does not support IIS. The area where I work does not allow anything to be installed in the server. The have a windows based server and I would like to create a dynamic website. IIS not allowed and server side languages like asp.net, php are not allowed. They did not say anything about client side. Is it possible to do?
In short, a general answer to your question Is it possible? would be No, it's not. And if you still find a way, it's not going to be worth the effort.
For one thing, even without programming languages like ASP.NET or PHP, you still need a web server such as IIS to serve static content. There are of course alternatives to IIS specifically, but no web server at all means no serving web sites at all.
If you would be given an opportunity to server static content, you could possibly produce a web site that is dynamic at least on a per visit basis using client side scripting and cookies, but the things you could make that site do would be very limited, and without anything other than serving static content there is no saving things between sessions, or in any way affecting the server side of the application.
You have to ask yourself why you need to serve this website. Is this something your company would benefit from? If so, could you convince the IT department to setup an environment to serve it? Are there any other alternatives? And, perhaps the most important one: there are lots of free or almost free web hosting solutions out there. Why not just use one of them?
There are many excellent reasons why you would want to create a dynamic website without using a web server. Here are a couple:
You are creating a website as a means of presenting a dataset with hyperlinks that you want to be able to archive on read-only media and ignore for 10 years or more (as you can do with books), and still be able to read (IIS is very poor at backwards compatibility).
You need to present your data to people who have no access to servers or the internet and have no idea how to turn their PC into a web server (there are many millions of such people in the developing world)
Yes, it's challenging, but if you want something to be readable by anyone, anywhere, anytime, and all you can count on are web browsers, there's no option.
By saying you want to do it without IIS, I'm assuming you're implying Apache as well (since you reference no server-side languages).
It depends what you mean by 'dynamic'. Essentially you'll be limited to
JavasScript, which means that you can manipulate information and elements already on the page.
iFrames - this would let you load external pages into elements and pages on the page. These could be dynamic, and if they were on the same server you could manipulate it as well. If it was from an external server, then you wouldn't have control over it from that page.
If you are able to set up an HTTP proxy, you can use JavaScript together with a service like CouchOne. You will need the proxy, since browsers restrict AJAX calls.
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I am thinking of using another "less" important server to store files that our clients want to upload and handling the data validation, copying, insertion, etc at that end.
I would display the whole upload thingy through iframe on our website and using HTML,PHP,SQL as syntax-languages for the thingy?
Now I would like to ask your opinions is this is a good or bad idea.
I´m figuring out that the pros and cons are:
**Pros:
The other server is "less" valuable, meaning if something malicious could be uploaded there it would not be the end of the world
Since the other server has less events/users/functionality/data it would help to lessen the stress of our main website server
If the less important server goes down the other functionality on main server would still be functioning
Firewall prevents outside traffic (at least to a certain point)
The users need to be logged through the main website
**Cons:
It does not have any CMS+plugins, so it might be more vunerable
It might generate more malicious traffic towards it.
Makes the upkeep of the main website that much more complicated for future developers
Generally I´m not found of the idea that users get to uploading files, but it is not up to me.
Thanks for your input. I´m looking forward to hearing your opinions.
Servers have file quotas and bandwidths defined/allocated for them.
If you transfer your "less" used files to another server ,it will help your main server to improve its performance.
And also there wont be much maintenance headaches with the main server if all files are uploaded there.
Conclusion : It is a good idea.
Well, I guess most importantly, you will need a single sign-on (SSO) solution in place between the two web applications. I assume you don't want user A be able to read or delete files from user B.
SSO between 2 servers is a lot more complicated than for a single web application. Unless this site is only deployed in an intranet with a Active Directory domain controller in which case you can use Kerberos.
I'm not sure it's worth it just for the advantages you name.
So I have finished creating my first website that I will be hosting online. It have php, html, and javascript. Now I am looking for a way to host my website securely. I have looked at sites like godaddy and web hosting hub. I was wondering what the best hosting service would be for my needs.
My needs:
Able to run php
Have a actual name, like www.noahhuppert.com
Be able to obscure the code so people can not just copy it(This is because my website is for my website design company and I have examples of templates people can use, but I don't want people jsut stealing those templates with a simple right click + inspect element)
Run server side scripts(Like slowing down connections to users if they fail to login too many times, to prevent brute force cracking attempts)
Deny access to people reading files(I don't want people downloading my password hash files or anything like that)
Be able to host files on the services servers, I don't just want a dns pointing back to my computer.
This question is asking for an opinion. Basically any linux web host will provide most of what you're looking for. You're asking for an opinion about which hosting site is the best. I cannot answer that.
What I do want to warn you about is this:
From your question, you're concerned with:
- security
this is not a web host provider feature, but a feature of secure web code. See https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013 for great introduction to website security.
obscure code
You cannot prevent someone from stealing your css. They will not get to your raw templates (I'm assuming you're using templates) if you set your file permissions right on the web server.
if you're concerned with brute force protections, you'll need to code that up yourself. The web host provider would not (and should not) rate limit your connections.
My webhost is aking me to speed up my site and reduce the number of files calls.
Ok let me explain a little, my website is use in 95% as a bridge between my database (in the same hosting) and my Android applications (I have around 30 that need information from my db), the information only goes one way (as now) the app calls a json string like this the one in the site:
http://www.guiasitio.com/mantenimiento/applinks/prlinks.php
and this webpage to show in a web view as welcome message:
http://www.guiasitio.com/movilapp/test.php
this page has some images and jquery so I think this are the ones having a lot of memory usage, they have told me to use some code to create a cache of those files in the person browser to save memory (that is a little Chinese to me since I don't understand it) can some one give me an idea and send me to a tutorial on how to get this done?. Can the webview in a Android app keep caches of this files?
All your help his highly appreciated. Thanks
Using a CDN or content delivery network would be an easy solution if it worked well for you. Essentially you are off-loading the work or storing and serving static files (mainly images and CSS files) to another server. In addition to reducing the load on your your current server, it will speed up your site because files will be served from a location closest to each site visitor.
There are many good CDN choices. Amazon CloudFront is one popular option, though in my optinion the prize for the easiest service to setup is CloudFlare ... they offer a free plan, simply fill in the details, change the DNS settings on your domain to point to CloudFlare and you will be up and running.
With some fine-tuning, you can expect to reduce the requests on your server by up to 80%
I use both Amazon and CloudFlare, with good results. I have found that the main thing to be cautious of is to carefully check all the scripts on your site and make sure they are working as expected. CloudFlare has a simple setting where you can specify the cache settings as well, so there's another detail on your list covered.
Good luck!
When setting up a SharePoint farm, is it technically possible to use the following URL structure?
http://myfarm/webapp1
http://myfarm/webapp2
http://myfarm/webapp3
etc.
where each URL points to a different web application on the same farm/server.
MDRoz,
Generally speaking, the answer (in a vacuum) is "no." As far as SharePoint is concerned (or rather, IIS), a hostname without any qualifying port information can be mapped to one IIS website.
Now that I've said that: there are variety of creative ways you might address this, and most are going to involve URL re-writing and remapping. A couple of ideas that come to mind:
A wonderful URL rewrite module can be obtained for IIS 7 that might work for you as-is (http://www.iis.net/extensions) ... assuming you're on Windows Server 2008, of course.
You could probably leverage Microsoft ISA Server 2006 to map incoming requests to different SharePoint web applications (IIS websites) based on path information. I don't have an ISA admin console open in front of me right now to explicitly confirm that, though.
You could develop an HttpModule that rewrites incoming URLs so that they are redirected or handled by different sites/web apps. This would ensure that redirection logic is specifically what you want.
Another link that might have some helpful tidbits comes from Todd Klindt, SharePoint MVP and all-around nice guy: http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48.
Regardless of the route you choose, I'll point out one potential sidenote and watchout: hierarchy and path depth. Generally speaking, any rewriting you do shouldn't alter a page's depth. For example, this would be okay:
myfarm/webapp1/testpage.aspx => app1.myfarm/webapp1/testpage.aspx
... but avoid doing something like this:
myfarm/webapp1/testpage.aspx => app1.myfarm/webapp1/newsite/testpage.aspx
These are fabricated examples, but I hope the point I'm trying to make is clear. In the first example, testpage.aspx is "2 levels" deep from the hostname -- and it stays that way on re-write/redirect. In the second example, it goes from 2 levels deep to 3 levels deep. Depth changes like this can lead to all sorts of insidious little problems during normal operations, as SharePoint depends on the path depth and ordering for some operations and determinations.
I hope this helps!
Can I ask why you would want to do this? You can separate out content databases this way for instance.. no need to create separate webapps.
I agree with Sean and Arjan. Sean is right to point out IIS does not support this and Arjan is right in saying that if you ahve the need for more web apps then actually create them as such, if it is just for URL sake create 1 webapp with multiple site collections each using their own content db.
As far as I know, only PHP can't be used for this.
But since not many providers allow installation of Perl/Python/... scripts on shared, I'm wondering whether there is free solution for either
creation of thumbnails or full-size capturing on the fly / on demand and save it to server (since snapshot lets you only to show thumbnails on hover) - service
or
Flex/Flash solution to capture website and PHP to save it (or save it right with flex/flash) - code to run on server
Is it possible?
To capture how a website looks like, you first need somebody to render it.
Because you are usually optimizing a web site to run on the major browsers, you will want one of them to handle the rendering.
This (opening a browser instance, opening a certain web page, rendering it and dumping a screen shot of the results) is possible - it's how services like browsershots.org work.
It's just not trivial to set up, and requires total freedom in setting up the server (i.e. administrator privileges to install programs, set rights, etc.). It definitely is not possible to do with pure PHP, Perl, Python, or any other scripting language, on a restricted shared hosting environment.
If you're on Windows, the answer to this question may be of help.
For a list of snap shot services, see this question.