Standalone CGI Server - Question for Group

[Steven Majewski]

On 29 Mar 2002, Gerhard [iso-8859-15] Häring wrote:

> Maybe it's just me, but I often have difficulties to understand the
> point of the "overkill" argument.
>
> > Any thoughts?  I sincerely appreciate everyone's help!
>
> If you can spare 5 megs of RAM and a little disk space, just go for
> Apache (or Xitami, or whatever). When you're running the webserver and
> are not using it currently, it'll be swapped out anyway, so why
> bother?
>
> It's a myth that Apache is complex to get running, here's what you'd
> need to do on Windows:
>
> 1) Install Python
> 2) Install Apache
> 3) edit etc/httpd.conf and add the line
>
>     ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
>
>    at the end of the file.

Apache comes preinstalled on Mac OSX, and all you have to do
there is click on "Start Web Sharing" in the System Preferences
Panel.  This is on all of the desktop machines, not just servers,
so they apparently didn't think it was overkill!

-- Steve