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Is there a mod_rewrite equivalent for IIS 7.0 that's
a) more or less complete
b) suitable for a production environment, i.e. battle-tested/dependable/secure
Do you have an experience-based recommendation?
Check out the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7 created by Microsoft
If you have $99.00 to spare you may want to take a look at http://www.isapirewrite.com/
[Excerpt from thier website]
Product overview
ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache's mod_Rewrite, but is designed specifically for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). ISAPI_Rewrite is an ISAPI filter written in pure C/C++ so it is extremely fast. ISAPI_Rewrite gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme.
[Example of use] available at http://www.helicontech.com/articles/provocative_SEF_URLs.htm
Have a look at URLRewriter. Used it in production once without problems. But don't rely on that as the only quality check:
http://www.codeplex.com/urlrewriter
(It's free and has a Microsoft Public License)
Managed Fusion URL Rewriter is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the Apache mod_rewrite extension. It is designed, from the ground up to bring all the features of Apache mod_rewrite to IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0. Managed Fusion Url Rewriter works with ASP.NET on Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 and Mono XPS Server and is fully supported, for all languages, in IIS 7.0, including ASP.NET and PHP. Managed Fusion Url Rewriter gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme.
IIRF
works with IIS5, 6 or 7.
Free
open source
well maintained
Free
supports regular expression pattern matching
uses .htaccess syntax
RewriteRule
RedirectRule
RewriteHeader
RewriteCond
Free
use separate config file for each IIS application or site
rule changes are loaded automatically
ProxyPass
Did I mention it is Free?
A pefect alternative to Apache mod_rewrite and other Apache modules on IIS7 is Helicon Ape. The syntax is 99% Apache compatible.
http://www.iis.net/extensions/URLRewrite was designed for IIS 7.0 and features great performance and administration UI.
IIS mod-rewrite is the best option I know, but it's not free.
ISAPI Rewrite is suitable for IIS 5 or 6. There's a Lite version available for free, or you can pay for the full version to get more features, such as proxying capabilities. It's been a while since I've used it, but it worked fine at the time.
I'm using Helicon Ape since jumped off from Apache and moved to IIS. It's syntax compatible with Apache.
You can read my article on how to use Managed Fusion URL Rewriter here:
http://carlos.mendible.com/2010/02/runnig-apache-behind-iis-server-net.html
Hope it helps.
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What I find great about Delphi is that with RAD (rapid application development) we can pick components and put them directly to the form and connect them to other components and methods.
It's so good that when I need to make an application that share information I use a remote online database server, but I don't make a Web site. I use zeos library and make a Delphi application.
But it is become dangerous as my clients are beginning to ask for use with tablets and smartphones.
What I hate about Web is the hard manual development of the interface and connection with the controllers.
But I might be wrong as there could exist great tools and Delphi like ide to work as fast as the real Delphi.
*Does anyone experience that? *
I tried rad php xe but I find it very complicated to code as you have to mix php and javascript in the same files and does not have a good mvc structure.
Dreamweaver is full of bugs and does not have a debug
PhpEd has good code control but does not have interface editor.
So,How to make a master-detail database Web site as fast as making the same with Delphi. Which visual IDE should I use?
DevExpress offers beautiful grids and other controls in case that's what you are looking for. It's not for Delphi but ASP.NET.
ASP.NET Controls, MVC Extensions at DevExpress
There are a number of large and small considerations to make when developing a website, that differ from making a desktop application. It's easy to imagine a RAD IDE environment that allows you to drag and drop components onto a page, and have the work done for you to convert it into a website that responds to requests, but it in general this will hide a lot of important properties of the website that have a big impact on its operation and performance.
A website is hosted on a webserver (or several webservers), generally serves concurrent requests for multiple users, and streams content to a web-browser that renders the page on screen. Any self-respecting modern website will also use smaller AJAX requests to add data to an existing page, and use client-side scripting for validation and navigation. Not to forget alternate views for the visually impaired, mobile devices, or other applications that want to hook up to an API.
The truth is a platform that does all this for you could exist, but in my opinion will underperform, produce overly large pages and will have made important decisions for you, you will run into as soon as the applications gets more complex, or needs to perform under a certain load.
There is a reason cutting-edge web-developers work close to the code (HTML, JavaScript, CSS...) and even prefer to have pieces of code and server-side logic in the same source files, like PHP,ASP,Cold Fusion,Ruby,Python... I wanted to combine this with the speed and power of the Delphi compiler and started http://xxm.sf.net/ that enables you to create both small and huge projects, keep in close touch with the code that constructs the response for a request, and lets you choose how and where you host the website.
I hope this in part answers your question, though you did not ask for ways to make a master-detail website with Delphi.
I suggest Delphi using IntraWeb. I've used it in the past, and it worked fairly well.
I suggest looking at the thread Alternatives for IntraWeb in Delphi? as a starting point which also discusses IntraWeb like products.
A description of IntraWeb from that thread:
Intraweb is a framework for developing web applications using Delphi/VCL. In the IDE you design and code using Delphi language and components. Intraweb's engine generates HTML pages using JavaScript/Ajax and those pages look and behave more or less like Delphi forms and components, but in the browser context. An Intraweb application is deployed using a webServer of some sort, which serves up those pages to browser based clients. – Mikey May 21 '11 at 6:09
You would, of course, have to host the app on a Windows server, since the code that Intraweb creates will only run on Windows.
I am thinking of developing a website using the ASP.Net MVC framework on Linux. I would like to know:
what are the best practises for developing such a site (are they any different for mono/ Windows)?
any gotchas I should be aware of
any (material diffeences) - e.g. missing/proprietary libraries/componenst between Mono and .Net
are there any special directives, modules required to run Mono with Apache?
Are there any performance differences between a site hosted on Windows/IIS and Linux/Apache?
I intend to do most of my development using VS Studio - can the site be developed using VS and then deployed on Linux?
I am aware that this question has been asked several times here on SO. However, most of the questions date back to 2008 or 2009 - which is a very long time in internet time. Things may have moved on since those answers - so those answers may no longer be relevant.
I have to state that I am NOT interested in hosting the site on a Windows server - so I am only interested in what works for a Linux server deployment.
I'am currently working on a MVC 4 app and we are using Mono. If you are just planning to have a basic website, you should go for it. But for more complex flows, honestly, I think you should do a little bit of research first, to see if the features you want to implement are supported in Mono. Things you should consider:
only a set of restricted libraries are supported on mono ( for example, right now we are having some issues due to the fact that the mono libraries (Novell and DirectorySearcher) for LDAP do not support pagination)
the developing environment will be different than your server env ( I am using Visual Studio, we managed to pass this limitation by adding a lot of logs)
we do our publish using FTP, so yes, you can deploy it from VS, using a publish profile set up for FTP
it's free, but it will take a lot of time to research & do special thinks just for the sake of Mono
not a lot of documentation available, because not a lot of people use it, so if you have a specific problem, it will be more difficult to solve
My experience is from 2011, but I am pretty sure you will have to experiment to see works and what doesn't - that's my experience with Mono.
Most of your questions are extremely broad and I think your question will be soon closed.
As for your last question this was the way I did it and it worked (develop in VS->deploy to Linux), but you must be aware that:
just because your code will work in the VS debugger it doesn't mean it will work when deployed;
there is no one-to-one mapping between Mono and .Net. Even when things work it doesn't mean they will work the same way. For example the implementation of the encryption code used for http cookies was very different between mono and .net.
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I'm building a new game and I need to build a web app to help manage content generation. The app would consist of a couple simple forms that would tie into a MySQL db.
I've been really interested in learning Lua for a long time due to it's large popularity in the video game industry and was wondering how well it works as a server side language. I could easily write the web app in PHP but I'd rather use this opportunity to learn Lua if it makes sense.
What do you all think?
Cheers,
Sure it can be done. Good idea if you just want to learn Lua. You should start here: http://www.keplerproject.org/
Of course, if your app would consist of a couple simple forms, you can use all what you want. But if it is more complex (will become more complex in future) it will be better to use some industry standard languages like Python or Ruby (or, at least PHP), there are a lot of good frameworks writen in them that very simplify your work (I don't know about any complete lua web frameworks) .
You should remember, that in future other people will have to maintain your code and there are very few web-developers who know Lua.
Probably, there will be problems with documentation and basic libraries too.
While LUA is a nice language for embedded development but i would extremely vote against LUA for web development.
The reason is that in Games you simply don't have an external API. All is done with your own objects only some calls into your game engine.
But the web world is so full of stuff you need, like SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSL, Amazon APIs, Google APIs, RSS Apis, Imaging etc. and while the checklist for LUA may have a check mark behind all this words - it doesn't mean anything. Most of the stuff i have seen is just a "me too| implementation but not industrial strength. They are projects by hobbyists and are published on a "Its good enough for me" basis which is total unacceptable if you ever go mission critical.
There is a reason why it takes years and a huge community to get this up. Lua has an extremely small community of web developers.
So if this is a professional project where you put your money i can only say hands off. On the other side if you have enough money i still have some snake oil here for sale, please contact me.
I have been using lua for years as a web language. Initially using the Xavante project and more recently apache2.
Dont listen to any neigh sayers, its a great language for web developement and we use it to write business software, and not just for form processing, for graphical applications too.
Also it offers us seamless integration to any other lua or system functions we might need to call.
Good Luck!
Have a look at Nanoki which is built on a pretty minimal set of libraries (lfs, luasocket, lzlib, slncrypto)
and Sputnik which is built on Xavante or CGI
Lua is a good language but it is best suited to embedding within an existing project in order to quickly extend the capabilities of that project. In particular, the interesting aspect comes with how you bind it to the host application. This is definitely the case when programming for games where it is an embedded language rather than the language the whole app tends to be written in. So using a web app to learn about Lua with a view to making games is probably not a very good approach, especially since the syntax is very simple and would be picked up quite quickly anyway.
I think that specific variants of lua can be used successfully for web applications and I have done that in the past using the maintained weblibrary. It can depend on if the lower level software on the computer is itself written in lua because of its high speed and this may cause a clash of lua versions. Regarding a serverside possibility the server would need a compatible version of the script developing facility for the hardware and a suitable bytecode or VM instructions and custom VM runtime implementation for running the application.
I've been developing a pure Lua Web Server, you could always check it out and see if it suits your needs
Lua4Web https://github.com/schme16/Lua4Web
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I was just wondering about the opinions out there. What do you think promotes faster development times for a web application? Silverlight or .Net MVC?
And could Silverlight be a replacement for a true http web application?
Feel free to rant or give as much details as necessary.
could Silverlight be a true replacement for a true http web application?
No. Just as Flash can't, Silverlight and any other presentation viewing plugin will never be an acceptable replacement for good HTML.
I can cite a million reasons but here are the highlights:
Plugin-availability (especially on other platforms, phones, etc)
Performance is awful compared to HTML
Maintenance is a PITA, requires complete recompilation and uploading. You just edit what you need in HTML.
Accessibility!
I can't comment on speed but I frankly think it's irrelevant. You shouldn't use Silverlight/Flash/whatever to build a full website.
What technology to use depends completely of your requirements. You should start there.
As far as Silverlight (or Flash for that matter) goes, you will be creating a web application but not a web site.
Disadvantages?
People will be reluctant to install Flash or Silverlight plugin.
Flash/Silverlight sites will not be visible to search engines.
People won't be able to bookmark them and share the links.
Back/Forward/Reload browser buttons will not work
No/partial support in Mac world
Advantages?
Rich UI
My personal opinion is that you shouldn't use Flash/Silverlight except in cases where raw HTML/CSS won't work. And HTML 5 with CSS 3 are quite powerful. Web is full of pointless Flash sites which do nothing interactive just present a few static pieces of information. It could easily be done with ordinary pages. Somebody thought a Flash site was cool, but it isn't. It's heavy, slow and inaccessible.
Silverlight and MVC/ASP.NET both have there places:
MVC/ASP.NET are great for things things like blogs informational web sites, online stores
basically when your application needs to be spidered by search engines.
For online applications like Turbo Tax or Sales Force basically applications that at one time where on your desktop but for many reasons have been moved to the web I would use Silverlight or Flex.
With the above in mind:
Having worked with MVC/ASP.NET and Silverlight extensively I find Silverlight development much faster once you get the hang of xaml.
This is repeated many times, but I never seen anyone mention such disatvantage of the "modern" technologies like Flash/Silverlight as lack of years of browser/usability support:
you generally can't copy text of arbitrary item
you don't have things like Stylish, AdBlock, or Greasemonkey at your fingertips to improve what "designers" think is good for you
browsers doesn't know about your forms and can't provide autocompletion or save values after crash/reload
accessibility solutions like zoom methods or third-party formatters do not work
And I can continue. From users prospective, Flash/Silverlight is a nightmare, stone-age, while HTML-based applications have all the modern usability stuff available for users.
Yes, there're development problems (nothing beats FireBug even in HTML area) but what matters is, please, be kind to your users. Even corporate people are people.
IMO - I look at Silverlight/Flash/HTML forming the "View" part of the website/web application.
If you can structure you site/application code properly, the View should be interchangeable and/or can support multiple formats of the view for the end user/device to choose from.
IMO - it is very hard to predict the user usage patterns of the site/application and there might be devices which need to be supported in the future. So, might as well develop applications which are structured in a way to help make that move a lot simpler in the future, in which case the rendering of the view can be anything you want to meet your current goals...
HTH.
A previous answer makes the statement "You just edit what you need in HTML". While this is true for a simple static web site. It is not true for a web 'application' as is stated in the OP. The functionality is not in the HTML. You might have some functionality in Javascript that yhou could edit this way, but doing edit-in-production of Javascript is NOT recommended.
For all but the simplest static web sites I would recommend that any change to a production web site or application should be managed in an source versioning system, tested, and reviewed before deploying to production. In such an environment adding a compile step is trivial.
I would never recommend Silverlight to replace what could be done in a static website. I cannot imagine that anyone would. HTML is designed for static content. Silverlight is not.
To address the performance issue: the statement that Silverlight performance is awful is just wrong. Certainly, it takes longer to load a Silverlight application than to load a web page, but once loaded the user interaction of a well designed Silverlight application is much faster than continually rendering complete web pages.
The lack of portability for Silverlight has been significanly overstated in some of the responses here. Silverlight has the same capability on MAC that it does on PC. Linux availability via Moonlight is not far behind. MonoTouch for the iPhone, soon to come Mono support for the Android and the Silverlight programming environment for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 also bring a lot of possibilities for mobile environments.
Having said all of that, I would not use Silverlight to develop many types of web applications. I would be reluctant to do a consumer oriented e-commerce site using Silverlight (or Flash) because of the previously mentioned reluctance by some to download the runtime. But for the SaaS application that I am currently doing that is not an issue, the vast majority of users a more than willing to do a small download to get the far richer user interface.
It is possible to achieve some of the same improved user interface 'richness' by applying Ajax/JavaScript, but I find the Silverlight development experience to be more productive. One thing to consider is generally an Ajax/Javascript application while giving a better user experience than traditional web application will still look and feel like a web application and a Silverlight application will feel more like a traditional windows application. This may or may not be a factor in your decision.
I find it a bit disappointing that a repsonse that misses the point of the OP and does not seem to understand the difference between a web application and a web site has gotten more up votes than some answers that were on point.
The response by Anthony is spot on.
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Delphi developers has several tools (several alternatives to ASP.NET) for building web applications.
While No.1 framework is Intraweb, there is a lot of interest around ExtJS, that has 2 incarnations:
1) the opensource ExtPascal
2) the closedsource Raudus
Now the products are different, Raudus never supports the latest ExtJS version (while ExtPascal does because as far as I read it "almost automatically updates itself to the latest ExJS version"), Raudus "seems" much RAD (much similar to Intraweb from the RAD point of view).
Anyway why chose one or the other?
Why Raudus (since it is free) cannot become Open Source? Or does Raudus use ExtPascal behind the scenes?
Comment: uniGUI seems at first sight to combine the good part of Raudus (the RAD part) and ExtPascal (being based on extPascal).
Talking about Raudus, I'd be careful! You can download it for free, indeed. I was about to start using it when I realized there's no single word on its usage license. There's no license in fact, or I was unable to find it under "standard" locations (website? no. installer? no. README / LICENSE file? no.)
Thus I'd be careful with using library which doesn't specify it's license. Especially if you're about to start some project which will use it intensely - just imagine what happens when it comes out that you need to pay big amount of money for using it ...
Why use any of them? RAD in the form of Intraweb and tools like it, is not appropriate for web programing. It doens't separate the GUI from bussines logic well. In other words there is no true MVC approach there. Maybe ExtPascal is different here, but the point is elsewhere.
ExtJS is a very well written RAI JS library. It feels almost like putting blocks of code together in a very object oriented way. You can easily build whole GUI with ExtJS without any backend support. This way your whole GUI is in javascript files and no backend is needed. Backend only processes the ajax call and provides data / processes data. This way you have a clear separation of concerns.
This can be easily done without any frameworks. Yes framework would come in handy but it would have to be done in a ASP.NET MVC or Ruby on Rails way. No RAD and no visual designers. New web developers often make those mistakes. But if you program for the web long enough you come to appreciate the separation of GUI and logic and the simplicity of HTML. Web programming is different from desktop programming at least to a degree.
To answer your question. From what I have seen, I like ExtPascal better. It seems a purer web development tool than Raudus. But I admit I have only seen both from the surface and from demo videos, so I cannot judge, only speculate :)
The Raudus developer put up a new blog post in late October and claims, well I'll let you read the snippet for yourself:
"Raudus license is freeware as written in license.txt. You CAN use Raudus in commercial projects. Raudus sources are not available yet."
Edit: There is a license statement at the bottom of the http://www.raudus.com/ page.
"License
Raudus is freeware. You can freely use Raudus for commercial purposes."
As to contacting the author, try this from the same page: E-mail: igor#klopov.com
After using Raudus for a few months I decided to post my own answer.
The framework is improving, Sencha touch support now it is not complete but sufficient to create usable web applications optimized for mobile devices.
RFE, a new front end, not based on Sencha Touch is under developement and in next Raudus release (that should be out soon) there will be a usable preview of the new controls set.
So while ExtPascal seems frozen, Raudus is in progress and promising.
Update: I stopped using Raudus, it dropped ExtJs support and now it ships with own controls, that will never match the beauty and richness of extjs components. I am now going for IW + cgdevtools components that are Jquery UI for IW.
user193655 --> Depending on what you do be carefull with both approaches. I am really a big fan on Delphi or Freepascal/Lazarus - I am not very certain if the approach of bringing 3GL bindings to the Javascript stuff is wise.
MVC - depending on what you do - in PHP you have the Yii Framwork or Prado. Maybe the second has some ideas from .net built in which are very easy to understand by Delphi developers. PRADO is an event driven approach while YII Framework is absolutely cool and unix like.
After using Raudus it seems that it is not practical for large scale of applications.
According to their documentation and I have also sampled, it serializes all client request into single main thread. However it process client request and response generation part in multi-threaded enviornment.
But main thread issue is quite important as it directly impact the response time if one action is taking more time in the main thread, others will keep waiting.
Any suggestions to resolve this issue?
Raudus:
Relies upon Delphi, in which:
Is verbose;
Relies upon Microsoft Windows;
High-cost to adapt to or to maintain;
Quote from raudus.com: "Raudus is freeware. You can freely use Raudus for commercial purposes. Raudus sources are not available yet." — This, to me, will be never a license. On the homepage, simply there is no documentation about Terms of Service or something like that. Hence I won't deal with their services.