Forum OpenACS Q&A: running OpenACS in a windows environment

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1: running OpenACS in a windows environment
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 02/08/01 06:24 PM
I want to run openACS on a windows machine, offline so I can learn.
But it looks like I can't because postgreSQL doesn't run on Windows.
Anyone knows otherwise ?
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2: Response to running OpenACS in a windows environment (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 02/08/01 06:44 PM
PostgreSQL does run on Windows, but you need the CygWin environment installed first.

Read the PostgreSQL documentation (User's Guide I think). It has instructions on how to get it running on Win32.

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3: Response to running OpenACS in a windows environment (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 02/08/01 06:50 PM
Looking at the PG administrator's guide, it looks like PostgreSQL will only run on NT/2000. Maybe someone has made it though. Search the mailing list archives in postgresql.org.
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4: Response to running OpenACS in a windows environment (response to 1)
Posted by Fred Yankowski on 02/08/01 07:17 PM
PostgreSQL works fine on NT.  See http://www.ontosys.com/reports/postgresql.html for some notes on how I set it up.  That page refers to some other instructions that are very helpful.

I'm using PostgreSQL with Zope, via an ODBC driver.  I don't know if that driver would work with AOLserver.

There is a current discussion on the postgresql.org lists about how well it works on Win98.  It clearly does run at a basic level, but there are reports that regression tests fail when there are numerous concurrent connections to the database.