Windows servers are a PITA because they run Windows. Seriously.
There’s actually several different flavors of Windows servers in the
Web space. First, there’s IIS, which is Microsoft’s home-brew Web
server. It suffers from nearly daily security exploits, and that’s a
big deal because it runs as root – all processes that happen inside
of IIS can affect every other part of the server with god-like power.
Apache also runs on the Windows server, but if it works there the way
it does on *nix, then it runs a single process/thread as root, which
hands off all actual work to much lower-class worker threads. This
makes an intrusion far less of a big deal.
Then there are a number of much smaller (market-share-wise) servers
you can run under Windows. Not sure about any of those.
I cut my teeth on Windows NT and IIS when I was first getting started
with Web development. We actually had to have a timed process to
restart IIS every day at one point because it wouldn’t run much
longer than that without getting totally balled up. And this was
following the (Windows) best practice guidelines of one process, one
box.
When the first developer seeds of Rhapsody came out, I grabbed an
ancient PowerMac 9500 and set it up as a test server. It may still be
running there for all I know. There’s plenty of lore about *nix
servers being accidentally walled in with drywall during remodeling,
and nobody noticing because they run for years without a hiccup.
Walter
On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Todd wrote:
I’m trying to set up WebYep for someone on a Windows 2003 Enterprise
server. I read in Max’s instructional pdf that Windows servers can be
problematic with regard to permissions and was curious as to why. In
any case I’ve asked the host to change the permission on the data
folder for me but I seem to be yelling down an empty hole for all the
results I’ve gotten so far so I figured I would use the down-time to
learn why Windows servers are such a PITA.
Todd
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