| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] hosting on linux questions |
|---|---|
| Author | Matthias Hanft |
| Post date | 2018-07-14T16:23:03Z |
Issam Boughanmi amigoface@... [firebird-support] wrote:
package manager. Besides some confusion where "firebird.msg"
should reside (the fbsql client seeks at /usr/lib/firebird,
but it was installed at /usr/share/firebird/msg), everything
was smooth.
I decided that something under /var should be appropriate.
On my former system, I just created /var/fbdata, but on
my current system, because /var/db already existed, I put
a folder /var/db/firebird there.
/srv, as Lester Caine already stated, seems to be a good
idea either, according to Wikipedia. (It's just that Gentoo
doesn't have /srv at all; web servers are at /var/www.)
-Matt
>I'm using Gentoo Linux and installed FB 3.0.2 from the usual
> 1- after some search , it seems that the recommended linux distribution for a web server is centos 7, then ubuntu .
> any feedbacks , recommendations, ideas on this please , and how it behave with firebird ?
package manager. Besides some confusion where "firebird.msg"
should reside (the fbsql client seeks at /usr/lib/firebird,
but it was installed at /usr/share/firebird/msg), everything
was smooth.
> 2 - i am not really a linux user , what is the best place/directory to put the fdb databases ?Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure
I decided that something under /var should be appropriate.
On my former system, I just created /var/fbdata, but on
my current system, because /var/db already existed, I put
a folder /var/db/firebird there.
/srv, as Lester Caine already stated, seems to be a good
idea either, according to Wikipedia. (It's just that Gentoo
doesn't have /srv at all; web servers are at /var/www.)
> 3 - i have several databases for differents custumers (20 / 30 or more), can a single firebird server handle many databases correctly ?I guess 200-300 databases aren't any problem either :-)
-Matt