> Ok. So if work, what reason you have for ditch it for Apache? There were really four reasons I moved from IIS to Apache: 1) Virtual hosting: although you _can_ do virtual hosting on IIS, you really need IIS6 on Win2k3 to support the host header fields. The default IIS on XP Pro doesn't allow this and I wanted my dev and prod environments to behave the same way. Apache's virtual hosting support is a head and shoulders above IIS, in my opinion. 2) Performance: while I don't have specific numbers at hand, the IIS configuration (of Django and the MoinMoin wiki) always felt a little sluggish for what should have been snappy apps. I tried them out under Apache2 and they felt much more responsive. I can't really say if I was using IIS in the best way, but I did the quick-and-dirty setup in both IIS and Apache2 and Apache seemed faster. I especially notice this when I haven't accessed a page in a while. It seems that IIS takes a while to "warm up" but once it does its not bad. Apache seems to always be pretty fast. 3) Consistency: I like that my configuration on Windows and Linux is very similar now. And I've even been thinking of buying a Mac so that becomes even more important. 4) Community/documentation: once I decided to start using Python, MySQL and now Django, I find it a lot easier to find information on the web for using Apache with those technologies. Its sort of the "go with the grain" mentality. I didn't want to run into the very kinds of problems you are now - where its hard to find good examples of how to use the various technologies you have chosen.
I used to be a C#/ASP.NET guy so I have used IIS quite a bit. Its not bad, and I haven't had the problems with security that other note - at least not in any of the more recent versions of Windows and IIS. But I just find for the development platform I've chose, Apache is a better fit than IIS. That's all. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
