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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:34:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        David Knapp <dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us>
Cc:        Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, Matt Steven <stevenm@brampton.cqu.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: web server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729081653.26151A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <35BDCB28.2221C3CB@luciamar.k12.ca.us>

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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
> 
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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
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