Windows 2003 Web!!!

[Urban_Squrill]

My dads company just got Windows 2003 web edition. And he braught it home to test. I installed it. Think this would be the best for my on going quest to get a web server on? is do how?

[vass0922]

just be prepared to get hacked
Its a new version of IIS so there WILL be holes in it.

KEEP UPDATED on those patches.

It maybe built for the web, but it still has IIS on it which is the biggest hole in the entire OS.

Wouldn't that use his serial number for work on the home pc?

[nukes]

It would be ok I guess. I still maintain that Linux is really easy (even go as far as to say easier than windows) to set up as a web server, and apache on Linux tends to more secure than IIS on Windows.

[Urban_Squrill]

I still am totaly lost trying a web server on linux.

[nukes]

IMO it couldn't be easier, and you would probably have a lot fewer headaches, but its your choice. If you prefer windows, thats fine. Just I would really advise against using IIS, and that leaves Apache (and a few others, but I've no experience with them) and the config for apache is pretty much the same on both Windows and Linux, so you wouldn't be doing much more with that, the only thing you need to know is that /etc/init.d holds the service scripts, so you can start apache with "/etc/init.d/apache start" and stop it with "/etc/init.d/apache stop" These are called from symlinks (like shortcuts) from a directory representing a runlevel. Some distros (Mandrake and Redhat) make running such a server very easy, and all the docs go in /var/htdocs or /var/www.
Also, that way you won't get grief for pirating software.