Switching fron windows to linux operating system

[TonnyD]

I have a forum that i built with the frontpage database. I have to add
some PHP scripts to the site but godaddy does not support it with
their windows operating system. So i have to switch to linux. If I do
this do I have to worry about any thing as far as the forum. Is there
any thing that I should be concerned about? The site is http://www.the-amt.com

Thanks for your help.

 

[Andrew Murray]

I believe the biggest problem is that ASP doesn't normally work on Linux,
therefore your forum (made with the database interface wizard in Frontpage)
won't work in Linux (Linux doesn't work with MS Access Databases either),
unless your host has some version of ASP that runs under Linux on your
hosting account.

That seems unlikely, given they don't even support PHP on Windows!

However, you could install an alternative PHP or Perl (if supported by your
host) forum such as:

http://www.yabbforum.com/ (perl/cgi & flat-text csv files)
http://www.phpbb.com (php/mysql)


This will of course depend on what your host allows you to run (third-party
scripts). They might even offer such forums as part of your hosting
account. If you have CPanel (or another control panel) so you can configure
your own hosting settings, then there may be several alterantives under
"Forums" options that you could install.