hi there im looking at setting up a webserver and i was wondering what you recomend as the best OS and accompaning software Thanks Sk8r
Get a distro of Linux that you like, and get apache2triad. Easiest way to set up a PHP/HTML/MYSQL server on this planet!
is this going to be publically accessible? if so you may wish to get some books on locking the box down lots also if its a public website you may want a dev site or dev box especially if it is remotely associated with a business but for learning i would go with ubuntu + vmware with ubuntu guests the vmware part is so that you can hose the "boxes" hosting the sites and still not do much damage and easily back them up also lets you lock different sites to different boxes so that you can isolate any problems that you experiance
you can run LAMP on windows just as easily as you can on linux.. or you can install IIS from microsoft.
It's called WAMP then, but you're right, it works from Windows too. But, since he asked for the best OS for a webserver, MY opinion is Linux, thus LAMP.
*shrug* they both have their up and down points, netcraft seems to think that more istes out there use IIS than apache though
Not wanting to go into a "mine is better then yours" wars, more doesn't mean better... For normal usage, nothing beats a free and secure system, opposed to a payed one. IIS is IMHO only justified if you need ASP support, and mod-mono (for apache) doesn't fill your needs.
ASP.NET is actually (with some drawbacks) supported by Mono, a mod for apache. Regular ASP isn't supported tough
What about Novel Netware?, been using it at college and its easier to use then linux and windows. Sam
novell is actually quite nice, didn't like it to start with but it's grown on me. Wondows on the otherhand isn't the most user-friendly server OS ever, and linux is picky with case sensitivity and coding, but apart from that kicks a$$ and runs quite fast.
Well the way we do it in college is set the entire network up via terminal, so it's a lot of coding in that. I'm sure there's a better word for it, but I can't think of it right now...
Typing? We use Netware (4.11 ) at work. It's worth pointing out that as great a system as it was, Netware is essentially no more - Novell still support it (and will do for a long time yet), but they are heavily pushing their Enterprise linux offering. They have however ported most of the better parts of Netware (eDirectory, ZENworks, etc.) over to their linux distro.
