Welcome

[issinoho]

Welcome to this board which will be dedicated to documenting and supporting the deployment of open source PHP-based CMS packages on VMS.

As well as the established LAMP & WIMP systems which are predominant on the Internet, this site will attempt to promote the addition of the VAMP platform to that list.

Please register and contribute; all comments are welcome.

[Alphaman]

Major props to you for getting this running! This is awesome and after having spent a couple days getting Pivot running on OpenVMS (on an ODS-2 volume!), I can understand what you must have gone through with this package!

Well done! & Thanks for making this accessible!

Can you give us an idea as to what kind of Alpha you're hosting this on? My Pivot blog is on an AS 400 4/233 w/ 192MB RAM and it's kind of sluggish at times. This system seems to be running very well and is quite snappy.

[issinoho]

Thanks for the thoughts, Alphaman.

The site is running off a PWS 433au with 512Mb RAM (I'm going to 1Gb soon) and a 2Gb HD (too tight, I'm upgrading to a 9Gb shortly) using ODS-5

I'm running VMS 7.3-1 and the latest versions of Apache (v2.0) , MOD_PHP (v1.2) and MySQL (v4.1.8). My stack is TCPWare 5.6-2

[reinhardtjh]

This is great! I'm setting up a family web site on an AS 800 and this is just what I need. I'll be looking forward to reading all about how it's done. Thanks a lot!

[Alphaman]

This is great! I'm setting up a family web site on an AS 800 and this is just what I need. I'll be looking forward to reading all about how it's done. Thanks a lot!

I've got my AS 400 running 7.3-1, Apache 2.0, PHP 1.2, and TCP/IP Service v7.3 w/ the SSH EAK. Not bad for a 10 year old machine! But it is slow on PHP. I'm using my system as my blog and photo gallery for my family. I've got an AS 800 in my garage, waiting for the 400 to fail (yeah, like that's going to happen ) -- I've got over 170 days of uptime on the Uptimes project, and I just can't bring myself to shutdown this system just to get a little (ok, a lot) more horsepower.

I'm in the midst of crafting my photo gallery -- it's all DCL CGI, and the pages are all HTML template and CSS based. It's turning into a bigger project than I'd anticipated (scope creep), but it's a lot of fun to watch it come together, and the end result is a lot faster and more functional than the PHP I was using. But as I put more photos on it, I'll be forced to go to the 800 just for more disk space! *sigh* what a dilemma...

[WillemGrooters]

But as I put more photos on it, I'll be forced to go to the 800 just for more disk space! *sigh* what a dilemma...

Put them in a cluster might be a solution (Ok, you'll need to reboot, but you need sometimes when applying the level-1 patches). if you put your CLUSTER in there, any of the two may be shutdown or rebooted without them noticing

[Guest]

I thought of that, especially when I noticed the Hobbyist kit included the license for VMSclustering. Unfortunately, I don't have the room nor cooling capacity, nor UPS capacity, to host a cluster at this time. Maybe some day I'll pick up a DS10L or two from Island for cheap -- that would make a great solution.

As you can see from my Uptimes statistics, the 400 did lose a disk drive, and was replaced with the 800 a few months back. Backup is a wonderful program that works better on OpenVMS than any other OS I can think of!

Speaking of the Uptimes project, has anyone else noticed the new top-ranked systems? The max time has jumped from about 1000 days to nearly 4000 days, thanks to the addition of 2 new clusters! Yippey!

Aaron