- Aug 7, 2001
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I am actually excited about work! I work in a county office of education, mostly just fixing old skanky computers that schools send in for repairs. Today, however, a boss of mine came in and asked me to setup a linux box with Apache on it. I run a FreeBSD box for a workstation, and at home, and have experience with apache on FreeBSD, but it's very limited. I have NEVER been able to successfully install php, and I can't stand the way Apache is installed through the ports collection. So, I usually compile apache from 'scratch.'
Download the tar file, ./configure, make, make install, cd ../apache2/bin, ./apachectl start...
Good to go, for simple html. The problem is that this is a pilot project, if everyone is satisfied with the performance of this web server, they are going to want me to drive out to a bunch of different schools, installing web servers... I know that they are going to want front page extentions, some schools php, etc, etc... I, of course, am going to be reading ALOT over the next two months about Apache, so I just wanted anyone to post their experiences, quirks, finds, etc, on/with apache and/or FreeBSD.
BTW, some one at work is very pro-Microsoft. So when they heard about this, they were all for setting up little win boxes w/ IIS. Also, if you are so kind help me come up with reasons that Apache on FreeBSD is better... These boxes need to be up as LONG as possible w/ virtually no configuration from the school. I figure just set them up with ftp access to the Apache root, and they can upload whatever they need.
**Things I can think of...
Stability
Not as likely to get a virus
Free
Download the tar file, ./configure, make, make install, cd ../apache2/bin, ./apachectl start...
Good to go, for simple html. The problem is that this is a pilot project, if everyone is satisfied with the performance of this web server, they are going to want me to drive out to a bunch of different schools, installing web servers... I know that they are going to want front page extentions, some schools php, etc, etc... I, of course, am going to be reading ALOT over the next two months about Apache, so I just wanted anyone to post their experiences, quirks, finds, etc, on/with apache and/or FreeBSD.
BTW, some one at work is very pro-Microsoft. So when they heard about this, they were all for setting up little win boxes w/ IIS. Also, if you are so kind help me come up with reasons that Apache on FreeBSD is better... These boxes need to be up as LONG as possible w/ virtually no configuration from the school. I figure just set them up with ftp access to the Apache root, and they can upload whatever they need.
**Things I can think of...
Stability
Not as likely to get a virus
Free