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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!wakko From: shad@iastate.edu (Marcus I. Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCSA httpd for FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 10:00:26 GMT Organization: Iowa State University Lines: 41 Message-ID: <48pjjq$1c0_001@cce.iastate.edu> References: <48nmfm$2iu@interport.net> <30AFB5A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: remote.cce.iastate.edu X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <30AFB5A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >You got something against Apache? In article <48oj49$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >davidtay@interport.net (David Tay) writes: >> Where the hell is NCSA HTTPD for FreeBSD? I checked cdrom.com, the NCSA >> web site, but can't seem to find one. ANy help would be greatly appreciated. > >I think nobody made a port for it. > >Perhaps you should try Apache? I don't know...correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't these comments very similar to the "Trouble with FreeBSD? Try Linux!" posts that plagued this group a while ago? Such responses don't answer the question, or really provide any help whatsoever. I've been running a FreeBSD-powered WWW server for over a year now. I started with CERN, and about 6 months ago switched to NCSA (get the source from http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu, tell it you're NETBSD, and it compiles quite happily). No one said what features apache has, let alone what makes it better than NCSA. I especially find it interesting that the command lines are the same for apache, NCSA, and CERN (at least), but the /etc/sysconfig file refers specifically to apache. So what's so great about it? Why would I want to consider switching? And if you must post a "forget the software you asked for, use the software I'm suggesting" message, at least explain why you feel the software you suggested is better. --------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus I. Ryan |*The joy of engineering is finding a Asst. SysAdmin, CCE Labs| straight line on a double-logarithmic Iowa State University | scale shad@iastate.edu |-------------------------------------- (515) 294-0715 | http://www.public.iastate.edu/~shad ---------------------------------------------------------------