Webste to work on all unix, windows...

[kess]

Hi All

Need help please!!

Is it at all possible to develop a website that can be hosted across all platforms like windows, unix.... I mean the same site that will work on unix as well as windows and any other platforms??

If so, then what srcipts/ technologies would best enable this to happen?? Any information/ links .... on the above will be gratefully appreciated.

thanx a million in advance

regards

kess

[akashik]

hmm, well html works just as well on unix and windows hosting servers. Your backend will be the issue though of course. While different hosting providers use different builds these should cover you on most platforms:

html, perl and/or PHP for the website itself

mysql for the database

Now that won't cover everything of course. Windows hosts don't always have support for mysql, but the inverse is few linux hosts offer support for other databases in the wider market.

Most webhosting servers have support for perl and PHP though there's always a few in each camp that don't have support for one, or both.

FreeBSD should be covered by anything that's supported by Linux, and Mac servers are as rare as hen's teeth so you probably don't need to really consider them at all unless you're specializing in something that would require Mac hosting.

At the end of the day it's probably best to pick your battles, and select your design to focus on a specific flavor of host. If you stick with the more common options across operating systems, your changes will be minor if they're needed at all.

Greg Moore