"At APC we've been running the Beta 2 edition of Windows Home Server for the past two months and it's acquitted itself surprisingly well - no doubt a reflection on the time this 'server for the rest of us' spent in the Redmond skunkworks. There's still some 'fit and finish' to appear before it hits the Release Candidate milestone around Q3, prior to the platform's debut towards the end of this year - but from what we've seen so far, we'd rate Windows Home Server as one of Microsoft's most polished and most impressive 1.0 releases to date. Here's a walkthrough gallery of screenshots from the Beta 2 build of Windows Home Server." There's also a screenshot gallery for Longhorn Server Beta 3.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Eeeh? You haven't used Linux for this I take it? Setting up a webserver in Linux is a click'n'point operation and has been so for years.
No it isn't.
System -> Administration -> Services, and click in the checkbox to the left of "Webserver". Webserver up and running.
Where did you pick this up from, and do you really believe this actually gets a web server up and running?
Member since:2005-10-02
Yes it is. Take a look at any Gnome Desktop
Hmm... When I go to the System menu in Gnome and chooses the Administration submenu I can see a menu item called "Services" ("Tjenester" in Danish). Click on the menu item, enter root password (may vary depending on configuration of distribution) and up comes a window with a number of services and "Webserver (Apache2)" (or whatever webserver you have installed as a service) will show up. Click in the checkbox at the side of "Webserver" and it will be started. Proof: Start firefox and enter "localhost".
That's where I picked it up.
And yes, it does get a webserver up and running. Does it get a lot of other things up and running? Nope. Just the webserver. Is it particularly useful? Naah, but neither is the IIS in itself. It takes a lot more but we were only discussing the webserver. Not a webservice based on MySQL/PostgreSQL, PHP, Apache, Java etc. You'll have to write that code yourself - or at least installing it before it can be used.
Member since:2006-04-22
Member since:2005-10-02
There's a difference between configuring and setting up. Setting it up so it can run is that simple. Configuring it to use PHP4 and PHP5 side by side takes more work. The same is true for Apache on Windows. Or IIS or whatever.
But starting the Apache service actually does make the webserver run. And that's all I'm saying (actually it doesn't take more than 20 seconds to configure Apache and PHP if you know what to edit - in CLI - GUI tools are different).
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2005-10-02
Eeeh? You haven't used Linux for this I take it? Setting up a webserver in Linux is a click'n'point operation and has been so for years. System -> Administration -> Services, and click in the checkbox to the left of "Webserver". Webserver up and running.