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If you use apache in a win32 environment, I wish you luck if you plan on using perl as well. Myself and several other buddies could not for the life of us get perl to map correctly with apache on windows. PHP and MySQL all mapped fine, but perl would not work.
I run IIS and use ASP/PHP/SQL/MySQL/PERL for server side processing and have no security problems. If you choose to use IIS, install all hotfixes, IIS lockdown and URLscan from MS. That should keep you fairly locked for security. >>
interesting... activeperl worked right out of the box for me. just make sure your scripts dont start with /usb/bin/perl, but rather the path to perl.
here is the installer for activeperl (yeah, its free. i think you're allowed to mirror the installer) and
here is the apache 1.3.20 installer... the latest is 1.3.22 or 23 though.
personally, I found IIS harder to get working, especially with NTFS cause you have to set filesystem permissions properly along with web server stuff, and I couldn't figure out the .htaccess equivalent.
edit: htaccess is an easy (and good) way to do security
edit2: i fried my network card and haven't updated my hostname, so if those links dont work, try making it ctho9305vmware.res instead
edit3: i moved the files to my 486 and fixed the links. it gets much better uptimes