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in thread quick and dirty http page server

What operating system are you running? Linux? Solaris? Windows?

Linux
The apache web server is probably already installed (and enabled).

Windows
Goto the apache website and download the latest stable apache binary release package. Installation is pretty simple. And you can always ask questions here if you get stuck.

Solaris
At home? I want one too. ;-)

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Re: Re: Re: quick and dirty http page server
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Jan 15, 2004 at 12:49 UTC

    FYI, if you happen to be running Apple's OS X, which is BSD under the hood, apache comes with it, installed. It's just not turned on by default, which is a good thing.

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      I am not running OS X so I don't have a clue why apache on OS X is not a good thing? Security concerns?

        turned-on by default is not a good thing. Webservers require careful and thoughtful configuration before allowing them to expose your computer network to the world. This is the major cause of Windows security flaws (RPC is, by default, turned-on and trusts everything)

        Update: My issue with RPC isn't that it's turned on ... it's that it's too trusting. And, it's not the only thing that's turned on by default in Windows that shouldn't be. In fact, it's almost impossible to turn some of the stuff off. It's not like Windows is well-documented or anything ... </rant>

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Re: Re: Re: quick and dirty http page server
by edan (Curate) on Jan 15, 2004 at 08:10 UTC

    Wow, the selection of Operating Systems sure has dwindled since last I checked...

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