IIS Vs Apache

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

NeWGeeK schrieb:
> 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?

You assign different host header names to the websites, so the webserver
can determine the website corresponding to each incoming request.

This requirement already decides, which software to use:

IIS on Windows XP doesn't allow you to operate more than one website at
a time, you would either need IIS on Windows Server or Apache, which
allows multiple websites on Windows clients.

Bye,
Daniel

"NeWGeeK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> 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

The Windows XP version of IIS does not allow more than one site to run, so I
think you need to look at Apache.

Hosting multiple sites on a single IP is quite common - you control access
to the different sites using host headers - or in Apache terms "Virtual
Hosts", have a google or two!

Alister

"NeWGeeK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> 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
>


Newgeek,

You also multi-posted this to the windows.2000.networking group. Did you
post it anywhere else?

Next time, please use your newsreader's cross-posting feature when you feel
it is necessary to post to more than one group. If you had cross-posted to
more than one group simulateneously (cross-posting), instead of making
multiple individual posts (multi-posting), any responses from any group to
the cross-posted group would populate your post in all the groups you posted
in simultaneously. This would have made it easier for you so you don't have
to check each one individually, and all you would have had to do is check
one of them. This also helps us so we can collaborate to offer better
assistance. Otherwise we would be doubling our efforts not knowing someone
else may have already offered a response, as well as you to digest which
response would have been more appropriate.

Ace

good afternoon

apache. named virtual hosts + dynamic ip solution of personal choice.

hand
Pleite
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:35:11 -0400, Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified
Trainer] wrote:

> "NeWGeeK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Newgeek,
>
> You also multi-posted this to the windows.2000.networking group. Did you
> post it anywhere else?
>
> Next time, please use your newsreader's cross-posting feature when you
> feel it is necessary to post to more than one group. If you had
> cross-posted to more than one group simulateneously (cross-posting),
> instead of making multiple individual posts (multi-posting), any
> responses from any group to the cross-posted group would populate your
> post in all the groups you posted in simultaneously. This would have
> made it easier for you so you don't have to check each one individually,
> and all you would have had to do is check one of them. This also helps
> us so we can collaborate to offer better assistance. Otherwise we would
> be doubling our efforts not knowing someone else may have already
> offered a response, as well as you to digest which response would have
> been more appropriate.
>
> Ace





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