A simple website guest book demonstration written in GnuCOBOL
Note: This project was created for the sole purpose of demonstrating a way to use GnuCOBOL to create a web application that interacts with a database. As with any internet facing web site, there are security risks. This code makes almost no attempt to mitigate these risks and care should be taken before using the source code in this repo in a live environment.
The following are needed in order to build and deploy the project:
- GnuCOBOL - https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol/
- esqlOC Precompiler - https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/contrib/HEAD/tree/trunk/esql/
- unixODBC - http://www.unixodbc.org/
- PostgreSQL Database - https://www.postgresql.org/
- odbc-postgresql - Postgres ODBC driver
- Apache2 web server - https://httpd.apache.org/
If you are using Ubuntu, all of the above are available in the apt package manager with the exception of esqlOC, which must be downloaded and built manually.
Building the project can be done by running the "build_and_deploy.sh" shell script itn he sources directory.
The following variables can be set:
- DEPLOY_CODE - set to true to copy compiled COBOL source files and HTML documents to local web server directories after compilation finishes.
- HTML_DEST_DIR - Location to copy HTML files to in file system. (Default: /var/www/html)
- CGI_BIN_DEST_DIR - Location to copy the compiled COBOL files to. (Default: /usr/lib/cgi-bin)
Below is a link to the a live demo of this software running. No guarantee on any uptime for this test server. It may be taken down at any time.
