>>I have a client running a couple of line-of-business VFP apps on a LAN. The LAN workstations are a mix of various Windows OSs but the backend is strictly Samba on Linux.
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>>They want to allow remote (Internet) users with just browsers to be able to query the VFP data - sort of like getting waybill status updates from FedEx or UPS.
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>>With my practically nonexistent Web dev background I envisage creating a VFP7 app to generate query responses. The company is willing to provide a W2K box (even W2K Server if necessary) to run this app plus any other services that might be needed - even IIS and/or WC, if needed.
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>>The only hitch is they don't want to expose an IIS/W2K server to the Internet. They would rather use a Web server on Linux (probably Apache). They are security paranoid, and Linux is what they know, they don't know MS server offerings - how to set up, secure, etc.
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>>Is there a solution that would work in this situation? Possibly relaying IIS output through Apache, or some other approach?
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>>Failing that, a compelling reason for them to use IIS rather than Linux/Apache?
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>Hi Al,
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>What about writing some standard java server pages (JSPs), which are like ASP pages, but can run on Apache. You can then use a JDBC-ODBC bridge, or some other JDBC driver that can connect to a VFP database to get at the data.

An interesting idea. However, at this point there's a lot more VFP dev talent available (me) than Linux (overworked Linux admin). A solution where more of the task is done under Windows would probably fly better.