From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 09:11:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10065 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lionking.org (btman@blacker-99.caltech.edu [131.215.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10013 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btman@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: from localhost (btman@localhost) by lionking.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA20306; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:08:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: lionking.org: btman owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:08:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann X-Sender: btman@lionking.org To: Roman Katsnelson cc: Matt Steven , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web server In-Reply-To: <35BDF0FE.CFEF8577@graphnet.com> 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, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > 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. Well, not true... Apache in its latest release cycle does support all Win32 platforms. However, there are plenty of security and performance issues that affect ALL Windows server setups, including MS IIS (!), stemming from things like Windows' handling of capitalization and long filenames. See http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/98-07-10 for a discussion of those issues, and why running ANY web server software on Windows is a risky maneuver. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message