OpenOSX ships OpenWeb 3.0 for installing web apps
updated 08:05 am EDT, Mon August 22, 2005
OpenOSX ships OpenWeb 3.0
OpenOSX has began shipping , a complete, ready-to-use, stand-alone application featuring Apache 2.0.54 along with a host of fully-configured web applications, servers and extensions. The new OpenOSX product is the first version of OpenWeb requiring "zero installation and support" for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and brings major new versions of most all of the included software while adding a functional "wiki" that allows for user generated/editable content. OpenWeb includes a secure shopping cart, a content management and publishing system, a "wiki" for user contributed content, web-based graphical server administration tools (supporting DNS, SSL, Apache, MySQL, Samba and more), SQL database backends, a search engine/spider, bulletin board systems, advertising management, project collaboration, a workgroup web-based calendar, and more. It is available immediately for $60.
The OpenWeb product is based on Apache version 2.0.54 with PHP 5.0.4, Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.31 with mod_jk 1.2.4, mod_perl 2.0.2, MySQL 4.1.13 and mod_ssl 2.0.54. The included, completely-configured web applications include: phpShop 0.8, PhpWiki 1.2, PHP-Nuke 7.8, PhpCollab 2.5rc3, PhpDig 1.8.8rc1, phpMyAdmin 2.6.3, phpBB 2.0.17, phpAdsNew 2.0.5, phpPolls, WebCalender 1.0.0, phpSysInfo and more.
The company says that Apache 2 offers many new features over versions included with Mac OS X offering performance enhancements and increased scalability. Tomcat along with mod_jk allows the serving of Java Server Pages and Servelets directly from the web server without the need to use an awkward port number. Perl with the mod_perl module enables a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in the web server. According to the company, the mod_perl module avoids the overhead of starting an external interpreter and alleviates the penalty of Perl start-up time, benefiting fast dynamic content.
