embassy Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 Hi there I have my own website www.harddanceuk.net and I installed fedora core 3 on my home machine so I could have it as a test box for my website.I used the test box to make changes and then implement them to the live site.The problem was with fedora is I need certain windows apps and I do not like wine as I have found it not very reliable.If I install windows 2003 server on my pc can I use it as a test box and still run all my apps like Access WordExcel.Also is it easy to set up mysql apache and php for windows 2003 server.Thanks :ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 2003 will run Office fine (Word, Excel, etc), but it should not be installed on an Exchange Server because some of the ports used for Exchange conflict with some of the ports used by Outlook (at least this was true of Windows 2000). If you're installing an Active Directory Domain Controller, I would recommend against it, but for home use on a PC, you should be fine.I can't answer for Apache, mySQL, or php, but I believe Apache for Windows is much easier than Apache for Linux. I think you may lose the reliability of Linux by going to a Windows platform though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 but I believe Apache for Windows is much easier than Apache for Linux. Not so true. Just so long as you can read and edit a simple text file (/etc/httpd.conf) and remember where your html files go (/var/www/htdocs) then you'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 I've only tried installing Apache for Linux separately once, but an .exe file seems much preferable. Maybe there's an easier way to install now Scuzzman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 There're about 1000 ways to install it, depending on the distro you use.Slackware: installpkg apache-VERSION_NUMER.tgz or swaret --install apacheMandrake: urpmi apacheFedora: rpm -i apacheDebian: apt-get install apacheGentoo: emerge apacheAnd with these, you don't even need to download the file. It will fetch it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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