From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 06:37:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23708 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 06:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23696 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 06:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA26187; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:34:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:34:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: David Knapp cc: Roman Katsnelson , Matt Steven , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web server In-Reply-To: <35BDCB28.2221C3CB@luciamar.k12.ca.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, David Knapp wrote: > Microsofts free download page is here: > http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/default.htm > > Microsoft has a "personal web server" that runs on win95. I have only > played with it a little, as I would prefer to learn more about what I > believe most people are using - apache. > > HTH > > dbk > > > Roman Katsnelson wrote: > > > > > is there a version of the freebsd web server than can be downloaded > > > and run as a seperate application under windows 95/98?? > > > > i don't think freebsd has its _own_ web server. it has some that come as > > ports, but are still separate applications, notably apache. apache does > > not support win95, i actually don't think any server does. if you wish > > to run a server on micro$oft you would have to do it on nt. > > > > But! if you were to do that, you would have to pay for an inferior os > > and pay for an inferior server (Netscape has an NT version), whereas you > > can get FreeBSD for free and Apache for free. > > > > Good luck. > > Roman > -- > David Knapp 805 473-4353 > PC Network Specialist > LMUSD > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Apache is also available for Windows NT. It does not, however, work anywhere near as well on NT as it does on a unix system. Most web servers in the world are running Apache (over 50% and growing last time I looked at the Netcraft polls) on some form of unix, most commonly FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message