>The company I am with is an Internet Provider
>using a unix server. We would like to investigate
>the possibility of using a DOS/WINDOWS operating
>system on a separate machine to link database
>applications into HomePage development work. I
>would like to use Visual Foxpro for this purpose.
>Anyone have any experience/comments on this ?

I did an installation like this for an ISP in Montreal. They had this big SGI 45k machine and didn't want to switch to a NT machine just to do databases stuff. Most of the ISPs don't know that they can make everything work while keeping the SGI or Unix machine as their main server. This is probably what you are gonna have to do. Here's a way to do it. I don't say that it's the best but it's certainly one that is working.

1. Keep the actual SGI or Unix WWW server as is (let's name it http://www.isp.com)
2. Install a secondary WWW server on the NT (let's name it http://www.isp2.com)
3. Install a package that is compliant with VFP on the WWW (Netscape or Website + Weblink, for example, to avoid problem use only professional packages (Example: FoxWeb, West Wind, Weblink)
4. You don't have to tell no one about the new server, just keep using the same http (Example: http://www.isp.com) and build the starting form on the Unix having a call to your cgi-bin on the NT like this (Example: FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://www.isp2.com/cgi-bin/..."). This will fire a process on the NT, to fire the cgi-bin (Weblink or FoxWeb or West Wind, for example), to parse the data to VFP, to built the resulted HTML, to pass back to the cgi-bin and then to the client.

So, as you may have guessed it, their won't be any HTML files on the NT, just the cgi-bin. It is only responsabile to intercept request coming from the Unix box and return the result.

Note that you may as well use the IP for the NT allowing you not to register an additional domain.

BTW This Universal Thread is only using one server but without any modification at all it can be installed to return HTML to a Unix box.