[plug] APACHE

[Craig Ringer]

Aaron Thorn wrote:

> Firstly, I want to point out I'm a beginner with linux. i´ve installed 
> mandrake 10 and been overwhelmed with its potential. I´ve self configured 
> proftp and samba but I´m more interested in configuring Apache. However, I 
> don´t know where to start. I´ve search the net and book shops for a beginners 
> guide without luck. In the past I´ve worked with asp and want to see if it is 
> easy to migrate over to CGI.

Well, CGI in general is a way to run programs that talk to the web 
server and send their output to the client. You're probably going to be 
most interested in moving over to PHP, which is in many ways very like 
ASP. PHP sometimes uses the CGI interface, but can also be run with 
mod_php as a component of the web server its self (and is much more 
efficient that way).

> Can someone direct me to the linux equivalent of asp,

I seem to remember hearing something about running ASP.net using Mono, 
apparently. Alternately, PHP is apparently quite ASP-like (I've never 
used ASP) and can normally be installed trivially on most modern distros 
(if it's not already installed).

For more "conventional" CGI programming, Perl is very traditional, and 
Python is becoming very popular due to the fact that it's easier to 
write programs you can work on later.

> MS 
> access

There's a real hole in the application availibility there. I'm not aware 
  if any good app with MS Access's functionality. OpenOffice has some 
forms capability, but I've always found it pretty clumsy. There are apps 
like Rekall that want to be Access-like, but Rekall at least seems to be 
very early days.

> drumbeat/dreamweaver?

Again, a serious weakness there. There are lots of HTML editors, but few 
WYSIWYG HTML editors. Nvu is in very early development, but headed in 
vaguely that direction. I'm not aware of anything professional, though.

DreamWeaver under CrossOver Office?

> I also want to know how to configure Apache. A 
> good tutorial or web site would be much appreciated.

Apache should've installed with its own manual, and that's pretty good. 
Otherwise:
http://google.com/search?q=apache+tutorial
there doesn't seem to be any shortage...

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Craig Ringer