[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-06-03 22:13:
> On 2015-06-03 17:00:35 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>
>> *Of course* you don't select VMS out of the blue, *only* becuse you want
>> to run a web server!
>
> Most folks will not select OpenVMS out of the blue.   At all. Irrespective
> of a web server.
>
>>  There are probably better web-only server platforms, if you are starting
>> an web-server operation from scratch.
>
> Probably?    Even if the configuration is not starting from scratch, and
> even if OpenVMS is in use, it's still common to use some other platform for
> the "front-end" web services.

Right, my experience is that most of them hasn't even asked if there
is a web server for their VMS server at all. Serving application data
out from the same VMS server where the data already is is much more
efficent then e.g. replicating data or connecting remotely to get to
the data. It is also easy to call some of your business logic to
gradualy move your users over to web based interface.

>
>> The question is rather what web server should I run on my VMS system to
>> complement my applications and offer another option for user interface to
>> the users. In that case it might
>> be more flexible to run on the same environment as where your (old or
>> otherwise) applications are running.
>
> OP still should learn more about other platforms, as those are what even
> OpenVMS sites are going to be looking at, and what they're going to be
> expecting, and what sort of ease-of-use or integration might be involved.
> Because it's not just the web server that folks are going to be looking
> for.  They're probably going to be looking for Apache or maybe nginx, too.
> Not WASD.

As I said, noone would use a VMS system *only* to run a web server.
The need will always be to complement some old application on that
VMS server with some more modern user interface.