And really, if you just need to serve up some HTML or other static content, you need neither Apache nor Ubuntu =P (ie, there are a bunch of other web-serving softwares which have lower overhead, do less, and different names)
TMI? Apache the webserver software is sometimes called httpd, the daemon (what a tool!) for serving http requests, so to speak. It does far more though, in pre-processing requests to generate dynamic pages along with engines for PHP, Perl, etc CGI's, than just serving up static content. To see some nifty examples of what it can do, search for the history of attacks possible on [previous versions of] apache's httpd (and other dynamic web-serving software, dare I compare it to IIS, mwah haw haw). The default security for Apache and other has gotten much better, but some of the tricks that have been pulled on otherwise-sane-seeming defaults are very clever. ciao, Ben On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ubuntu Server means the distribution is designed to run as a server. The type > of server is up to you. It can be a file server, database server, web server, > and/or more. Other distros can be used as a server as well. "Designed" for a > server typically means they strip out all the usual desktop applications and > window manager fluff. The machines in my rack are servers and even have > apache running but not serving to the outside world. > > Apache is merely the software package that allows your "server" to act as a > web server. Apache does run on nearly anything including Windows! > > > --- On Mon, 8/11/08, wes morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: wes morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Eug-lug] servers >> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug@euglug.org> >> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 8:45 PM >> Hello: >> >> Is there much of a difference between Apache and Ubuntu >> Server? >> >> >> >> http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209903275 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
