Originally Posted by
MAFoElffen
No disrespect to anyone...
What I suspected from the first post last night, and the OP confirmed (later), was that he had an old orphaned site, that had no documentation, nor a live person to pass on what the logic of the site was, and how it worked. (Though, the OP was not specific to what he wanted to do, and where he wants to end up at, in that original post.) That is the basic jist right?
The OP just needed to run it "temporarily", to figure it out, to be able to update it to whatever, using whatever. I respect TheFu, his knowledge and experience. The OP is setting up a temporary test environment, and probably a parallel dev environment. Then the OP will dispose of the outdated. In it's form, it will never leave that test environment.
For a test environment on, TheFU or I would probably host it using KVM or LXD, but the OP might know more, be more comfortable and have more confidence using what he has or knows. I understand that... For all we know, the Host to his VirtualBox may be running on a 32bit Windows OS. (He never said.) AS a Dev, he may also being using a Graphical Desktop to use GUI tools such as an editor and browser to step through it and see what it is doing. You would never do that on a live public web host either, but so is such for personal realms. It makes it quick and easy in a test environment.
Now, the DEV environment or where it ends up as? TheFu has some great ideas for that. Infrastructure wise, that makes all the sense in the world, if the OP was hosting it (in the end). Though that depends on who and where it will be hosted. "That" dictates a few things. I can understand that the OP may not be the Hosting Entity. What the OP is "doing" is a Web Site update, with a web app, which will fit to the Hosting Entity's infrastructure and security. Right?
I can also see the OP's passion in his posts to take this on (personally) as a project, and may not even be paid for this. My Kudo's to him, if that is the case.
Reminds me of the adage that "Communications is a mutual understanding of all involved..." Just saying that there is common ground here. On both sides.
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