RE: Webservers

From: Chisholm Wildermuth (cwildermuth@dbwebnet.net)
Date: 05/14/02 

Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:55:11 -0700
From: "Chisholm Wildermuth" <cwildermuth@dbwebnet.net>
To: "Robert Buel" <rbuel@solubility.com>

I disagree,

It's like the difference of learning the QWERTY keyboard layout compared to
DVORAK. Once you learn one it's hard to switch, but the learning curve on
both are probably equal if you're just starting out.

Chisholm Wildermuth
Systems Engineer
dbWebNet, Inc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Buel [mailto:rbuel@solubility.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:15 AM
To: 'Peter Thoenen'; security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Webservers

Guys-

I will be a heretic and vote for IIS--you can install it in about 1
minute, easy to use, just like Apache, keep up on your patches! :)
As far as the CLI, I have mixed feelings. I'm dumb as a rock about 'NIX,
and the biggest problem I have is that you have so much overhead to
learn to do the simplest things. Even if you look it up in the
"man-pages" (I think that's right) you still might end up re-compiling
something to get it to run!
At least with the GUI, you run help, and just click the link in help to
run the task...also, if you know there's a window that will configure
it, you can always hunt around and find it...
Finally, there are a billion books out there on windows, and technet as
well.
But, of course, if you know 'NIX, it is easier to administer for you,
and if you know Windows, it would be easier to administer! To me, the
only sticking point here is that if you don't know either one, the GUI
is faster to learn!

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Thoenen [mailto:pthoenen@uwm.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:19 AM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Webservers

Depends how you define easy to administer :) ... In my head it is easier

  to do all configuration options and server directives out of a single
flat text file and the ability to run all server commands via the
command line either at the terminal or with open-ssh. This is of course

as opposed to a millions windows with
subwindows/directories/files/hidden options/registery hacks, but maybe
thats just me :) . There are are some GUI apache configuration tools
out there but couldn't give you any offhand as I have never really
looked for any.

Peter

Tom Geldner wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Bremer" <steveb@nebcoinc.com>
>
>>>number of reasons. Can people here suggest a low-cost (or free),
>>>secure, easy-to-administer replacement??
>>
>>Apache. Version 1.3.x of Apache doesn't perform as well as IIS
>>when running on windows, but since you said it was a low volume
>>web site, it should be fine. If you need the performance, you can
>>try the new Apache 2.x. The initial benchmarks shows that it
>>performs as well as IIS when running on windows. Apache 2.x is
>>pretty new, but I'll bet it's still far more secure than IIS.
>
>
> OK, so far it's Apache 10 votes. Anything else, 0 votes. <G> The one
> thing that's kept me from trying it is the implementation. Remember,
> one of my criteria was "easy-to-administer" and I've heard that Apache
> is totally command/console driven vs. web or gui administerable.
>
> Tom G
>

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