January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
14h 51m
English
book
PHP & MySQL® Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies®
by Janet Valade, Tricia Ballad, Bill Ballad
Content preview from PHP & MySQL® Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies®
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 4. Installing a Web Server
In This Chapter
Checking whether Apache needs to be installed
Obtaining and installing Apache on Windows, Mac, or Linux
Configuring Apache
Installing IIS
A Web server is software that delivers your Web pages to the world. When a browser requests a Web page file, the Web server receives the request and responds by sending the Web page to the requesting browser. The browser then displays the Web page, based on the code in the Web page file.
Two Web servers deliver Web pages for over 90 percent of Web sites on the Web:
Apache: An open source Web server that powers over 60 percent of the Web sites on the World Wide Web.
Internet Information Services (IIS): A Web server produced by Microsoft that powers almost 30 percent of the Web sites.
To install a Web server, first test whether a Web server is already running on your computer. If it isn't, install either Apache or IIS. In most cases, Apache is the better choice. It's the choice for most Web sites because it's very reliable.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.