All non-geeks be warned: don't read this! I'm gonna babble a little on technical stuff.
This site is running on my old Celeron 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM (on four sims, no less!), which I dusted off last month right after I got a static IP from my new ISP.
I got SuSE installed on it, then Apache HTTPD, Tomcat and MySQL. I'm keeping a log of all that, for the next time I need to do it: http://www.thecalgaryfolks.com/install. Then I wrote these blog and album apps, and all is well.
Then I figured I want to make this a full-out J2EE app, because I can, so I got JBoss. Installed it, changed my code, tested, no problem.
Man, I love this stuff.
As I got it all running on my linux box, the whole thing started crashing. Darn it.
I admit I'm pushing it: a single machine with Apache HTTPD (for static content), Tomcat (for dynamic presentation content), JBoss (business logic) and MySQL (data). It's not exactly how the tools are designed to be used (in fact, Apache recommends not using HTTPD if Tomcat is on the same machine), but my goal isn't to build the most efficient apps. It's to build the most fun and most representative of a large scale project.
JBoss comes with Tomcat to answer the web-based pieces of J2EE. I wasn't able to disable it, mostly because I didn't want to spend the time. Now when I start my Tomcat install (after JBoss is started), the JRE crashes. Darn.
So I'm back to the version without JBoss. Until I figure out how to make the whole thing run on the same machine...
How's that for a blog entry?
