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Master of Reality:
apche kicks ass! except i havent actually got it working on my computer yet on RH7.2. I am gonna try to use slackware to run apache on my computer.

voidmain:
I have never had Apache *not* work right out of the box with no configuration tweaks at all on any RedHat distro.  I can't imagine what problem you might be having. I would be more than happy to fix it for you.

iancom:
Even if it's not on a particular distro, I've never had a single problem getting a basic Apache installation working.

If you absolutely must install it on a Windows machine (and that's still better that using IIS) it's as easy as double-clicking the installation program, and them setting the service to run automatically.

However, on a real OS (BSD, OSX, Linux, Solaris etc) it's almost as easy.

Download httpd-2.0.3x.tar.gz to /usr/local/src/

From that dir, tar zxvf httpd-2.0.3x.tar.gz, cd httpd-2.0.3x

./configure && make && make install

...and then all you should need to do is run /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

... to run the server. All your html docs should be in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

If you have any problems after that it's most likely your firewall. Try using Lynx to get to your local httpd server to check this.

voidmain:
And it's even easier than that on RedHat. Just check the box at install time and the first time you boot up the sytem it's up and running. And if you didn't install it at OS install time it's just a few simple RPMS to install (1 if you don't want PHP or any of the other good stuff).

And good job on converting your M$ buddy! Hopefully he will act as a virus and infect his other M$ buddies.

dbl221:
The problem I find with the canned apache httpd that comes with any distribution is that since you didnt compile it you have to figure out how they did in order to use it.  I always prefer to build it myself, that way you know all the compile time options and everything is ass you would like it.

Plus I think you learn more about apache by building it yourself and agonize over all those options.  :D

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