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Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Shaun Orchard wrote: > >> Even if the version of Windows you have didn't come with IIS, I don't >> think there is anything physically stopping you from downloading >> Apache and using that. In fact I probably would do that instead of >> using IIS in the first place. >> > > So would I. I've never run Apache on a Windows machine, but it's been > available for a long time, so I expect it to work quite well. One > thing you should be aware of though, is that your anti-virus software > might try to block it. (A friend of mine had this problem, and she > then panicked because she thought she had a virus.) Not because Apache > is bad in any kind of way, but because running a web server on a home > computer is likely to indicate some active malware on the machine. > > For similar reasons, it might be best to check with your ISP and make > sure they won't get suspicious from a lot of port 80 traffic going to > your machine. > > Martijn. > > IIRC the web services from windows on non server machines are connection limited - to 5 or 10 users - even the IIS server is limited to 10 connection unless you pay for more licences. Most of the time this will not be a problem - I've seen large shops run happily on that but if your likely to get lots of hits at once and can install apache use that. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html can install that, mysql php and a whole host of useful things in one go and allow you to relatively easily move to a real server without having to pay MS tax. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html