[UCLA-LUG] Linux vs Windows 2K

[David Braginsky]

With IIS there are several screens of configuration options, integrated
certificate management, and now text config files to edit. Now maybe that is
not the best way to fine-tune your server, it's certainly the easiest.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu [mailto:linux-admin@linux.ucla.edu]On
> Behalf Of Frederick Lee
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 7:03 PM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: RE: [UCLA-LUG] Linux vs Windows 2K
>
>
> 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
>
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