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Subject  :  PC as a Server?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  25 May, 2001 on 19:10
Can one use a personal computer as a server (connected via a hub to other personal computers)? What server os would one recommend?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end.

Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  27 May, 2001 on 20:57

tommylee (25 May, 2001 19:10):
Can one use a personal computer as a server (connected via a hub to other personal computers)? What server os would one recommend?

No problem here at all; just use the Peer service that came along with Warp and you're able to share disk and printer resources. If you want to use a more server enviroment; I would go for either WSFeB or Novell. More stable and not so resource hungry as NiceTry But for the most homeusers and SOHO-users a pure plain installation with Warp 4 would cover their needs!

//Kim


Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  30 May, 2001 on 21:38
Can one use the Apache server software on a pc?

Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  30 May, 2001 on 21:52
Yepp, there is no problem at all. Apache is available for most OS. I'm running a Apache installation on my fileserver (WSFeB) for local test and development. And for the fun try make a jump to http://195.43.229.158 and you will find Swedish OS2 User Groups new server (it's not in production mode yet) with WSFeB and Apache. Works very well. OS2 World.Com runs on a Linux based installations, but then again I'm running around 30 others sites on that server without any problem. I actually never used pure OS2 installation with Apache in web production. But, when the OS2 UG server is up and running with some more script I will try to test and compare how well OS2 and Linux run perl and php scripts or rather how much the CPU loads differs betwen the OS.

//Kim


Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  pipes
Date  :  17 Aug, 2001 on 23:21

Kim (30 May, 2001 21:52):
Yepp, there is no problem at all. Apache is available for most OS. I'm running a Apache installation on my fileserver (WSFeB) for local test and development. And for the fun try make a jump to http://195.43.229.158 and you will find Swedish OS2 User Groups new server (it's not in production mode yet) with WSFeB and Apache. Works very well. OS2 World.Com runs on a Linux based installations, but then again I'm running around 30 others sites on that server without any problem. I actually never used pure OS2 installation with Apache in web production. But, when the OS2 UG server is up and running with some more script I will try to test and compare how well OS2 and Linux run perl and php scripts or rather how much the CPU loads differs betwen the OS.

//Kim


I also have WSFeB and Warp 4 at home. I looked around and it looks like Lotus Domino WebServer does support XML ans ASP scripting to a certain degree; however, I would like to know if anyone has tried it? I am also going to post this in the WWW forum.

This is my first post and will be coming here more.

Great resource.


-Peter

Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  17 Aug, 2001 on 23:35
Can't say if Lotus Domino WebServer support XML or ASP, but only problem I then think is that You get thoose crazy long urls! But, agree Domino is actually a great piece of software; Lotus manage to make something there. Would be nice if there was a tool that could translate the url the Domino creates; is there one?

//Kim


Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  pipes
Date  :  21 Aug, 2001 on 16:37
The only time I've seen the long URLs, such as filename.asp?=... is the way in which the page is executed, it is a GET rather than a POST. This is similar to the CGI technology, take a look at the URL for this message thread, especially when you reply.

I was trying to also get the WebSphere to get to work on my box at home, specifying the servername:9090 port to get it to run and it made my box hang. I still need to play.


-Peter

Subject  :  Re:PC as a Server?
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  02 May, 2002 on 12:32
Pipes, Have to ask but how did it work out with the Wepshere installation that You tried?

/Kim


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