IIS Vs Apache

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NeWGeeK

IIS Vs Apache

I am planning to host two web sites on my pc at home. My OS is WinXP SP3 and
I am at crossroads if I should use IIS or Apache as a webserver deamon.

I am behind a router and a modem and therefore forwarding port 80/81 and
obviously having one public IP.

How can I have the two websites accessible from the Internet through this
connection? I want them to be accessible seperately from eachother each
having a unique address but stil pointing to the same IP. Also which is best
suited for this task...IIS or Apache?

Thanks a lot foe your help mates
 
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Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]

NeWGeeK said:
IIS Vs Apache

I am planning to host two web sites on my pc at home. My OS is WinXP SP3
and I am at crossroads if I should use IIS or Apache as a webserver
deamon.

I am behind a router and a modem and therefore forwarding port 80/81 and
obviously having one public IP.

How can I have the two websites accessible from the Internet through this
connection? I want them to be accessible seperately from eachother each
having a unique address but stil pointing to the same IP. Also which is
best suited for this task...IIS or Apache?

Thanks a lot foe your help mates
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Using IIS or APache I guess would be determined by preference and if you
have any and what type of webapps running on it. For example if you have
ISAPI apps (.Net, ActiveX, etc), you would want a Windows machine to host
it. Otherwise it;s preference and familiarity.

As for port remapping, that is a router limitation that only port remaps one
IP to one port internally. Get more WAN IPs if you need more.

Any web server has the ability to host 100's & 1000's of websites based on
host headers under ONE IP address. This means that even though it has one
IP, the header (such as www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com, etc) are
identified as individual unique sites by they're different headers. Either
IIS or Apache will work.


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Alister

Ace said:
Using IIS or APache I guess would be determined by preference and if you
have any and what type of webapps running on it. For example if you have
ISAPI apps (.Net, ActiveX, etc), you would want a Windows machine to
host it. Otherwise it;s preference and familiarity.

As for port remapping, that is a router limitation that only port remaps
one IP to one port internally. Get more WAN IPs if you need more.

Any web server has the ability to host 100's & 1000's of websites based
on host headers under ONE IP address. This means that even though it has
one IP, the header (such as www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com, etc) are
identified as individual unique sites by they're different headers.
Either IIS or Apache will work.
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Sorry Ace, but not on XP.

IIS 5.1 only allows one site.

Alister
 
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Phillip Windell

How can I have the two websites accessible from the Internet through this
connection? I want them to be accessible seperately from eachother each
having a unique address but stil pointing to the same IP.
Click to expand...

Use Host Headers to distinguish one site from another.
Also which is best suited for this task...IIS or Apache?
Click to expand...

There is no difference.

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Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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Alister

Phillip Windell said:
Use Host Headers to distinguish one site from another.


There is no difference.
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Ace, Phillip,

The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
wants.

IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.

Alister
 
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Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]

Alister said:
Ace, Phillip,

The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
wants.

IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.

Alister
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Good point. So his only alternatives are if he wants IIS to do this, to go
to a server version, or to use Apache with Xp.

Cheers!

Ace
 
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Phillip Windell

Alister said:
Ace, Phillip,

The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
wants.

IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.

Alister
Click to expand...

Ah!, ok, sorry. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------
 
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Phillip Windell

That is only an IIS limitation in XP's version of IIS.

He could run Apache,...assuming it runs on XP. The same Host Header concept
should apply.

--
Phillip Windell

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------
 

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