Ted Byers wrote:
>>
>> I am developing a small web application. Currently, our web server is
>> sitting outside our firewall (running its own firewall), and the
>> application
>> being developed would let users do things like place orders.
>>
>> My question is...what and where is the database for this?
>>
> What do you mean when you say your web server is running its own
> firewall? I could well be wrong, but I am not aware of a web server that
> can run a firewall; web servers and firewalls are, as I understand them,
> quite different kinds of software, though I am aware of some hardware
> that have built in firewalls.
He is probably running Linux, which has apache and iptables and thus is
a webserver that is running its own firewall.
Joshua D. Drake