Lookie lookie I got a package! $400 of software!
(Editor Note: If you are trying to find how to install custom PEAR modules on 1and1.com, you actually want to go to “How to install custom PEAR modules on 1and1.com and other shared servers”. There’s more information there.- B)
Visual Studio 2005 Standard came in the mail yesterday.
Very cool.
And it was all free: http://www.thecodecave.com/?p=55
Even cooler!
Also included was a coupon for 50% a microsoft certification package. And another coupon for $400 VS2005 professional.
Now to see if I can activate ASP.NET on a 1and1 Linux server… It looks like it is possible…
according to this article. You just need Project Monkey’s (Mono’s) mod mono package installed. Heck, it’s worth a try just because I haven’t seen any documentation about running ASP.Net on 1and1’s apache servers…
I’ve had very good luck installing everything else on 1and1 including custom PEAR modules, AWStats, PHPMyAdmin, CVS. 1and1 is a great host for technical people that can actually read instructions a see what is behind them. The ONLY negative thing I have to say about them that they play it a little too safe in their tool upgrades. For instance their MySQL databases haven’t been migrated to MySQL 5 yet. But jeez they have presences in most major countries on this planet. The bigger a company is, the slower it moves to change. That isn’t something to complain about, in the business world, it is often a good thing. I’d rather have a slow update, then have them crash my site.
Anyway, if I get it to work, I’ll post how…
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Hey there,
Good links. Thanks for posting. We use 1and1 as well. Can’t complain. Service is actually decent considering the price. But I have not been able to install anything like what you’re talking about. Custom pear modules? That failed for me big time. I was trying to install symfony-project… no go. phpmyadmin isn’t a problem. Other things like that are pretty straightforward. I must be missing some major bits of info! And you got mod_mono installed on your system?!
Hi Michael
I’ll post a pear walk through tomorrow. I got it installed and never ended up using it. I was thinking abot porting QStat (a quake based game server monitoring engine) to PHP and pear looked like it could give me some pretty good tools for doing that. Then i found that 1and1 didn’t have a pear module I needed. It presented a challenge as a procrastinated doing other things. 🙂
Anyway, I’ve got the frame work of that post pasted in. Just need to add some text. Check back soon and you’ll see the solutions.
I’ve not tried the mod mono stuff yet. Soon though…
Many thanks. I had tried to work that through for some time but just didn’t have the time to crank through it. I got the sandbox to install… but not work successfully. mod_mono… that sounds quite interesting. Looked into that… fascinating stuff. Linux/Windows/MacOSX in one shot… Very cool.
Hi Michael!
That post is finally up! My last three weeks have been filled with guests. So I haven’t had much spare time on the computer (the home office is temporarily being used as sleeping quarters for the guests.) Anyway, try it and let me know what you think: http://www.thecodecave.com/?p=116
Alrighty, heading over to check it out.
Doh! We’ve been found out! That site REALLY needs updating… hence the desire to dig into frameworks… 😛
And did I say thanks yet?!
You’re welcome 😉
Hey there, it looks like the mod_mono is getting prepped to work on virtual hosts! I will have to wait a while before trying but it could be almost ready to go on systems like 1and1. That’d be cool. 😛
Doh! Forgot to give a link:
hmm… that link didn’t make it. 🙁 Let’s see if this works…
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Latest_Mono_release_brings_NET_on_Linux_closer/0,39028227,39220841,00.htm
Almost is a key word there I think.
From this section:
It sounds like this is something 1and1 would have to implement, not us…
Good progress none the less… It’s neat that Google’s Summer of Code is having some real effects…
hey