[Lispweb] A newbie start...?

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:47:25AM +0300, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
> Hi Andre!
> 
> First of all, let me assure you, your English is excellent.
> At least, my yours understand : ))
> 
> Second of all, I'm a newbie too, and I'm under Windows.
> So, I can share some experience.
> 
> 1) Yes, it is possible to create web applications using open
>    source lisp tools under Windows.
> 2) I tried to use PortableAllegroServe with clisp under Windows.
>     It doesn't work. After that I've installed FreeBSD on
>     virtual machine, installed SBCL and tried PortableAllegroServe
>     in this configuration. It doesn't work.
> 3) "The simpler the better" I decided. CGI is the way try.
>     Currently I successfully use the following toolset:
> 
>     ms windows xp - for operation system,
>     clisp - for lisp implementation,
>     lisp-cgi-utils - for CGI stuff
> (http://www.thangorodrim.de/software/lisp-cgi-utils/index.html)
>     lml2 - for HTML generation (http://lml2.b9.com/)
>     pg - for database (PostrgreSQL) interaction
> (http://common-lisp.net/project/pg/)
> 
>     (If you want to use international characters in
>      your web application, it's necessary to fix lisp-cgi-utils
>      slightly. The solution exists, but Alexander Schreiber, the
>      lisp-cgi-utils author is quite busy and hasn't integrated
>      it yet. Your can contact me if your need international
>     characters support)

The updated version lisp-cgi-utils 0.10 containing proper support for
multibyte charsets has been released now. The default charset was also
switched from Latin1 to UTF8.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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