Linux of Web servers
Written: Jan 25 '00
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Pros: sets up out of the box
Cons: it could be difficult to configure
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I agree with sgersh that apache is not for the faint of heart if you want to do something special with it. However, I have to disagree that ms pws is a better idea -- there's just not that much you can do to it. When I set up a Redhat Linux server with apache on it, there was nothing that had to be done to it for it to be run as a single user server. Nothing -- it installed right off the Redhat CD and started serving pages after the first boot.
The only default values that needs to be changed for most web server applications are to allow cgi-bin access, and to allow multiple user directories. If someone needs to run cgi, then they are well capable of editing a few lines in the file and rebooting.
As far as the server itself goes, this is the original big time success of the open source movement. Long before Linux took off, Apache was serving 75% of the web pages on the WWW. It still does well over half.
Another thing to consider is the fact that an administrator's GUI front end is being worked on now. That's the nice thing about open source. If you don't like something, you can roll your own :)
Just one man's opinion!
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