Debian - Apache help

[Merv Curley]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 16:55, Lennart Sorensen wrote:


>
> Any web server that supports cgi should be able to be used.  apache does
> have the option of using mod_perl which allows it to do some caching of
> the perl scripts, although it also breaks some perl scripts that aren't
> written very carefully/cleanly.
>
> apachectl may be a better command to see if apache is installed.  Debian
> doesn't call it httpd, they call the binary apache.  dpkg -l apache, to
> see if it is installed.
>

Well it wasn't, I had forgotten about an install problem I had several days 
ago.  Everything else that I selected to install [like apache-common] was but 
the actual apache program wasn't.  Here was a case that Synaptic couldn't do 
the config but plain old apt-get did the job.

> You can install apache or apache2.  Depends what you want.  Apache2 has
> some new features, and some features aren't there yet that apache 1.3
> has.  Some people don't consider apache2 completely stable yet.
>
Thanks for the speedy reply.  Apache is working and I can see the results of 
the cgi script.  Now to see what I can do with it on my little home lan

If I want to see how Apache2 works etc., do I have to uninstall Apache or will 
apt-get look after all those details?

Regards

Merv

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