Hello, I had a conversation with a friend last week where I was asked: Can you store an entire static page in an SQL database such as MariaDB or MySQL and have httpd initiate the database query by parsing the search parameter from the URL? i.e. https://www.example.org/benny/index.html would search a table for "/benny/index.html" and return back a corresponding VARCHAR, or maybe BLOB, that contains the entire HTML document. My initial answer was, "Of course! You're not the first person to have this idea. It seems like a project that somebody would have done and is out there somewhere. Could be interesting if you're hosting a massive amount of tiny files where you might run out of inodes. I had years earlier read an article about somebody using SQL databases as a filesystem, so that could be an approach. After an evening of searching, I had to backstep and admit to my friend that without the use of PHP as an interface, it really could be that nobody has done this before. Searching for this idea on a modern search engine was maddening. My results were polluted by every LAMP, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB server howto, blog, forum and tutorial ever written in the past decade. But as a last step before I shut this thought down, has anybody (particularly the developers) seen an interface between httpd and SQL server without using PHP as a glue between the tools? Has anything like this ever existed? Hope I didn't distract anybody too much with this craziness. Thanks Timothy D Legg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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