Firebird Hosting on Windows & Linux

Having offered Firebird hosting on our Linux servers for over two years, InspiroHost is happy to announce that we now also offer Windows web hosting with full support for Firebird, PHP, MySQL, ASP and all the tools you need to get your website up and running. Cpanel/Plesk control panels are included, as is 24/7 technical support and server monitoring.

Please visit us at http://www.inspirohost.com/firebird-sql-hosting/

Django 1.5 driver for firebird ready for testing (based on the new fdb driver)

Hi everyone,

I’ve some news about development of django-firebird:

First, the current django-firebird at google code repository was updated (in trunk) with support for django 1.4. This version is still with kinterbasdb support.

There is a new version of django-firebird at https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird.
This version is under development and uses the new fdb python-firebird driver in replacement of kinterbasdb. Also it’s tested with django 1.5 master branch, so that is possible what this can fail with django 1.4.
Given that this is still in alpha stage, so we need that you try it and give us some feedback.

For the moment, I’ll try to maintain both, but in the future, all efforts will target fdb with firebird 2.x and later.

Survey for Jaybird users is on-line! Participate now.

The Jaybird team would like to invite developers and users of Jaybird to fill out a survey on your use of Jaybird (Firebird JDBC driver). You can find the survey at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm. The results of the survey will be used to decide where to focus development of the upcoming Jaybird versions.

Mark Rotteveel

The survey will be online until 28-September. If you use Jaybird in your projects, don’t miss the chance to participate in this survey.

Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available

The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v2.5.2 release
candidate kits for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms are ready for
testing.

Please read the Release Notes for details.

Download page:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-2-rc1/

Enjoy the testing and please don’t hesitate to report the found
regressions (if any) to firebird-devel mailing list or in the bug tracker.

Regards,
Dmitry

Xampp and Firebird on Windows7

Install xampp to c:\xampp

I had to change the Apache Port to 8080 as windows 7 has its own http.sys listening on Port 80.

Then I followed mainly this article

As I already had a working Firebird 2.5 version, I simply copied fbclient.dll from my existing Firebird/bin folder to c:\xampp\apache\bin

modified php.ini as mentioned in above blog post

I had to modify status.php and FirebirdTest.php a bit because of my existing Firebird installation and the different Apache port:

status.php:


line($TEXT[‘status-ssi’], $ssi);

if (file_exists(“$partwampp\\htdocs\\xampp\\FirebirdTest.php”)) {
$a = @file(“http://{$hostauth}{$host}:8080/xampp/FirebirdTest.php”);
$fbi = $a[0];
line(“Firebird”, $fbi);
}

<?php
if(@ibase_connect(‘localhost:C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\examples\empbuild\employee.fdb’, ‘sysdba’,’myfirebirdpassword’)) {
echo “OK”;
} else {
echo “NOK”;
}
?>

http://localhost:8080/xampp/FirebirdTest.php then should return ‘OK’

 

From Frank <frank at schlottmann-goedde.de>


“Fascinating creatures, phoenixes, they can carry immensely heavy loads,
their tears have healing powers and they make highly faithful pets.”
– J.K. Rowling

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