[UCLA-LUG] Linux vs Windows 2K

[Frederick Lee]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:43:40 -0700, said "David Braginsky" <daveey@ucla.edu>:
>It is my understanding that Apache runs on Win2k, at least it did on NT. IIS
>certainly does not run under Linux, and it is not a bad webserver by any
>means. So if you have time/money invested in asp you cannot easily switch to
>Linux. However, as Apache runs under all common OSes, servlets or jsp can
>still be used under Win2k. If money is an issue, Win2k is more expensive by
>far, however its much easier to configure than a Linux based solution. I do
>not know anything about performance.
[snip]

Apache does run under NT 4.x.  Not every well though; Apache is not optimized
under NT.  I'm not surprised; many parts of the Windows API are notoriously
undocumented.  Unlike Linux, where you can dive into the kernel code and see
that the "stampede effect" is not healthy for a serious web server...

I wouldn't be surprised if Apache fails to run, much less compile, under W2K,
since who knows what undocumented featuritis may have cropped up.

As for MS ASP, there is
  1. An ASP to PHP3 converter.  At least PHP3 can also run under IIS.
  2. An Apache module to process ASP directly.  And I mean Apache/non-MS-OS.

As I lack experience wrestling with IIS (no, this is not MS ragging.  I had
to wrestle with Apache a few times, too), please expound how the configuration
of MS IIS done.


-Fred