mod_harbour for non dedicated servers

[Antonio Linares]

For those of you that have no access to a dedicated server, we have prepared a special version of mod_harbour that works as a CGI. So if you use a hosting company that will never allow to install an apache extension but does allow to install a CGI, then this mod_harbour version is for you

https://github.com/FiveTechSoft/mod_harbour/tree/master/cgi/linux

We do appreciate your feedback about it

[Antonio Linares]

Here you have it, already built, for centOS 64 bits:

https://github.com/FiveTechSoft/mod_harbour/tree/master/cgi/linux/centOS%2064

[Antonio Linares]

Here you have mod_harbour working from Bluehost (non dedicated server, where it is totally forbidden to install mod_harbour for Apache)
using mod_harbour CGI version:

https://fivetechsoft.com/cgi-bin/modharbour?info.prg

https://fivetechsoft.com/cgi-bin/modharbour?arrays.prg

Now we can run mod_harbour from non dedicated servers too !!!

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Please clarify: mod_harbour CGI is an EXE, right? So it still cannot be run on most commercial web space providers, sorry.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Dear Enrico,

If the hosting company allows CGI execution, then you can run mod_harbour from it using this new mod_harbour CGI version

This mod_harbour CGI version is an executable fully compatible with the mod_harbour version for Apache

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

That's exactly what I was afraid of. Most of commercial web space providers don't allow to run CGI EXE. So we cannot use mod_harbour.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Bluehost allows it, I am testing it from there

Surely other hosting companies may allow CGI execution too. Maybe not all of them, but some may allow it for sure

We need to find how to make it work for free from Google Colab and/or GitHub and others

We need to provide such power to Harbour users

[Otto]

Hello Enrico,
Just out of curiosity.
Why is a VPS or self-hosting not a solution for you?
Best regards,
Otto

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Usually I have to use the existing customer web spaces. I cannot tell my customers to change their providers just to allow my mod_harbour web apps to work, can I?

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Dear Enrico,

What providers are those ?

I am curious to check them

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I don't know. Each customer have your own company web space or your own provider. As an example: https://www.aruba.it

EMG

[cnavarro]

I have had servers in aruba (windows and linux) for a long time and it is where I do the tests and developments of modHarbour (with and without CGI)

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I'm not talking about dedicated servers but web spaces. Aruba doesn't allow to run CGI EXEs from their web spaces. Most of my customers have web spaces from various providers or company web servers that doesn't allow CGI EXE to run for company policy.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

We should get mod_harbour to be part of the common packages that Apache installs by default

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

It would be great for a start. But what about IIS?

EMG