Jason Yates wrote: >The Apache configuration tools are far behind anything from Microsoft. >Admittely the httpd.conf file is very easy to learn, and once you learn it >you'll love it. But the truth is we live in a GUI world and Apache needs a >damn good gui. This task isn't easy at all though, but a lot of people are >working on it. > I beg to differ - the luser lives in a gui world. For administration purposes, the terrible truth is often that gui-configuration toys need to be overly complex to achieve the same power you get from simply editing textfiles. Not always, but often. joe /etc/apache/httpd.conf me everytime :)
>I not sure where you heard that is hard to connect to MS-based databases >from Unix. It's a completely false statement. First of, Apache doesn't >control DB connections. The language like PHP or perl thats there domain. >On the other hand, DB connections for Windows are handled by the operating >system, which is bad design because if you have one rogue connection or one >bad driver Windows crashes or IIS freezes. > True for application-level, but for authorization purposes, it *is* the webserver (or a plugin) that accesses the database. Further, accessing a MS-based Oracle or so isn't hard indeed, but accessing an MS SQL server, although possible, requires quite expensive odbc components, and afaik there aren't any decent ones in the open source realm yet. >Wouldn't a big fat wet target be Apache because of it's on the majority of >web servers(http://www.netcraft.com). > Yah, but some ducks fly, while others just sit there admiring the gun you're aiming at them :)
