best web server

[Leinad]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to here, and I am also new on the server side language.
I am thinking of whether I should invest my time in ASP or PHP, what do you suggest?

Also, Should I use IIS, or Apache for my web server installation??

Thanks alot. All your replies are most appreciated.

[firepages]

well the short answer is apache.

but it all depends on what language you decide to use...

ASP is win32 only and means you are stuck with IIS like it or lump it. (there are things like chillisoft ASP ...carp but fun)

PHP will work with IIS or apache , apache runs on *NIX or win32 but a stable apache2 is required before its safe to use apache on win32 in a production environment, and the current version of apache2 is really only stable when running static or SSI stuff.

Apache is by far the worlds most popular web-server (60% of web-servers are apache or apache variants, (IIS about 22-25%))

PHP is the most popular apache module (over 9 million domains powered by PHP/Apache/*NIX)

so the long answer is also apache ;) - but that wont help if you want to use ASP, not that I would suggest you should , but ASP heads will disagree (although they will be wrong of course :))

the only advantages to ASP/win32 that I can see are some of the .NET services that may or may not take off, but if .NET interests you note that you can create web-services in most languages PHP/Apache gives you SOAP/XML-RPC/etc as well as all the other stuff that make it so popular.

[Spookster]

yeah what he said. :D

All your servers are belong to PHP!!!!!

[Leinad]

In that case, is there any website that teaches me how to use and config PHP and Apache? and are they difficult to config too?

[Spookster]

Well unless you really want to learn how to set up servers you can just download PHPDEV and start playing with php right away. You will see a thread for that at the top of this forum about it.

[Leinad]

I have been searching for topic on installation of PHP and Apache, and I've found a program called "PHPTriad", in http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad

They said, "It installs PHP, Apache, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin, both installing and setting up the environment. Version 2.11 updates all components and it now includes Perl 5. "

which one do you suggest? Both of them seems pretty good to me, but I guess I have to choose one among them...!?!

[Spookster]

PHPDEV Good PHPTriad Bad!!! Nuff said. PHPDEV was put together by firepages my fellow mod.