IIS Vs Apache

19 Jun 2009 12:03 PM

NeWGeeK

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

19 Jun 2009 1:17 PM

Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]

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"NeWGeeK" <teknologix***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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
>

Using IIS or APache I guess would be determined by preference and if you
have any and what type of webapps running on it. For example if you have
ISAPI apps (.Net, ActiveX, etc), you would want a Windows machine to host
it. Otherwise it;s preference and familiarity.

As for port remapping, that is a router limitation that only port remaps one
IP to one port internally. Get more WAN IPs if you need more.

Any web server has the ability to host 100's & 1000's of websites based on
host headers under ONE IP address. This means that even though it has one
IP, the header (such as www.domain1.com, www.domain2.com, etc) are
identified as individual unique sites by they're different headers. Either
IIS or Apache will work.

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22 Jun 2009 2:40 PM

Phillip Windell

"NeWGeeK" <teknologix***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Use Host Headers to distinguish one site from another.

>Also which is best suited for this task...IIS or Apache?

There is no difference.

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22 Jun 2009 2:56 PM

Alister

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"Phillip Windell" <philwind***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "NeWGeeK" <teknologix***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e1JpDYN8JHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
>> 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.
>
> Use Host Headers to distinguish one site from another.
>
>>Also which is best suited for this task...IIS or Apache?
>
> There is no difference.
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
>

Ace, Phillip,

The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
wants.

IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.

Alister

22 Jun 2009 4:32 PM

Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]

"Alister" <alister.***@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Ace, Phillip,
>
> The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
> wants.
>
> IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.
>
> Alister
>

Good point. So his only alternatives are if he wants IIS to do this, to go
to a server version, or to use Apache with Xp.

Cheers!

Ace

23 Jun 2009 2:13 PM

Phillip Windell

"Alister" <alister.***@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Ace, Phillip,
>
> The OP states he is running XP, so he can't use IIS to achieve what he
> wants.
>
> IIS 5.1 doesn't allow multiple sites.
>
> Alister

Ah!, ok, sorry. Thanks for pointing that out.

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23 Jun 2009 2:17 PM

Phillip Windell

That is only an IIS limitation in XP's version of IIS.

He could run Apache,...assuming it runs on XP. The same Host Header concept
should apply.

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23 Jun 2009 3:28 PM

Alister

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"Phillip Windell" <philwind***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> That is only an IIS limitation in XP's version of IIS.
>
> He could run Apache,...assuming it runs on XP. The same Host Header
> concept should apply.
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
> Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>

Yep.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.networking&tid=9a667126-ada7-400e-97cd-29128162c64c&cat=en_us_c72d9442-4df7-4586-bdfb-65641cae6b37&lang=en&cr=us&sloc=&p=1

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