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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HTTP Server Apache or CERN
Date: 15 May 1996 16:20:22 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4nan4e$gau@nadine.teleport.com>,
Blake Swensen <blake@pbgi.com> wrote:
> Not really interested in which is best.... Just which would be get the best 

To  get  the  best  results, being under    FreeBSD or any   other OS, take
Apache. The latest 1.1b2 has a cache like Harvest built-in.

> result under FreeBSD.  For  instance, if I want  to support more than one
> domain on this server, which is the best for this... what about counters,

You need special patches to get the CERN working with multiple domains (I'm
not sure on this one though).

> perl scripts or other CGI?

Get the great CGI.pm package (libwww-perl-*.tar.gz on CPAN).

> I installed CERN, and it seems OK... but are there problems that I should 
> watch out for? 

It doesn't support the pre-fork mode of operations sot it will be slower if
you get many hits.

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