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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: James Butterfield <jbutter@siue.edu>
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Subject: Re: Configure my FreeBSD 2.1.6 to be a web server
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> Hello, my name is James Butterfield working at Southern Illinois
> University at Edwardsville in the
> Electrical Engineering Dept.  I am currently working with a group of
> FreeBSD 2.1.6 machines and am
> supposed to install a web server for the other users.   I am not that
> familiar with FreeBSD and am
> not sure where to begin with this or what I need to know.  Can you
> help?
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated.  I will be documenting all that I do, so
> my output will be submitted back
> to your website for future administrators to work with.
> 
> Any responses can be mailed to :  jbutter@shiva.ee.siue.edu

Try www.apache.org. Great web server, and is very easy to install(just
edit a couple lines in the makefile). There is also a port in the FreeBSD
ports collection, but im not sure what version. Try
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/www