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For small and medium-sized enterprises to establish their own website, external display of their own page is the most common thing. The most popular tools for building WWW services are Apache and IIS. So what's the difference between them? Which tool is best for us? Let's discuss this issue today. Free vs. Paid: Although many users use IIS to build websites, it is a component integrated into the Windows operating system. However, if you want to use IIS legally, you have to buy a genuine Windows operating system. Apache, on the other hand, is completely free. You don't have to pay anything to download and use it for free. Conclusion-Apache is free, IIS charges, the former dominates. Second, stability: The next thing to compare is stability, WWW services should work normally at any time, and a website needs to be open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So stability is the focus of comparison between IIS and APACHE. IIS in actual use often appear 500 error, and sometimes there will be inexplicable suspended animation phenomenon. Users need to restart IIS services from time to time to ensure that the site is working properly. Apache is more complex to configure than IIS, but once it is set up it will work for a long time. Large web sites use APACHE as their own service provider. All APACHE configurations are stored in configuration files and used exactly as documented in the configuration files. There's no such thing as a fake death. Tip: IIS performs better than APACHE under Windows2003. Conclusion--APACHE is stable, IIS is sometimes suspended animation, the former is dominant. Extensibility: Extensibility refers to whether the WWW service provider tool can be applied to a variety of occasions, a variety of network situations, and a variety of operating systems. IIS can only be used under Microsoft's Windows operating system, without which it will accomplish nothing. It cannot be ported to other types of operating systems. APACHE is versatile, not just for Windows, but for Unix,Linux and FreeBSD. Moreover, the configuration steps of different operating systems are basically similar, and the portability is very high. Conclusion-IIS can only run under Windows, apache is widely used. Apache wins. 4, security: often see a certain website is ***** or a certain website is illegal users upload virus messages, for other people to provide services to the site, security is the most important. If a website does not guarantee its own security, who wants to browse and use it? Early IIS had major security issues, and *** could easily be exploited if the default settings were used. However, Microsoft has made significant security improvements in IIS6. As long as the operating system is updated in a timely manner, the website security factor can be improved as much as possible. In particular, IIS6 and the. Net platform rely on each other, making security almost perfect. APACHE has been doing a good job in security, because many users are using apache under linux, so the characteristics of the operating system make apache under linux have an innate umbrella, security naturally can not be said. Conclusion-IIS 6 is as safe and reliable as APACHE. IIS6 is tied with Apache. 5. Openness: The so-called openness refers to whether the source code of the program is open. It is well known that IIS is part of the WINDOWS system, so his source code is not open. Apache is different, the earliest he is for unix-like system services, so completely open source code. Anyone can analyze his code, discover a flaw in it, and issue a patch to fix it. Because of APACHE's openness, its safety is greatly improved. Conclusion-IIS is not open source, APACHE is open source. The latter won. Difficulty: The ease with which a tool is used directly affects how many of its users, especially web publishing tools. After all, many companies want to have their own websites, but they don't want to hire highly paid webmasters to maintain them. Therefore, it is necessary to find relatively easy tools to build their own site. IIS is relatively simple to open, it is easy to make IIS work, external publishing sites. However, administrators are prone to misconfiguration and misoperation problems. IIS is very easy to learn, but I'm afraid it's very difficult to learn. APACHE is more difficult to use than IIS, and requires a certain computer and network infrastructure to use. His configuration is also not graphical, we need to edit the configuration file to achieve. However, from APACHE's settings alone, as long as we strictly follow the help file for parameter settings, there is still no difficulty. Conclusion-IIS is easy to install but difficult to master, APACHE is relatively difficult to install and difficult to master. IIS has a slight advantage. Programming: In order to make the web page more colorful, more beautiful, and more interactive, experts have developed a variety of components and controls for us, so whether these controls work normally under IIS or APACHE? Mod Rewrite under APACHE is very powerful, while ISAPI Rewrite in IIS needs to be specially developed, which is generally impossible for beginners to achieve. APACHE can use Subversion WebDev and.htaccess functionality, as well as ForceType. In addition, IIS support for FastCGI is not very good, so some CGI, PHP programs run very slowly, far less than apache. Conclusion-Different components are used in different environments, because IIS or APACHE is determined by the working environment, and the two are equal. Eight, support language: Because the current establishment of websites and forums in a variety of languages, such as ASP, PHP, JSP and other languages. So IIS and APACHE support them both? IIS works well with ASP, especially. Net, but it's a bit of a hassle with PHP and JSP. PHP needs to be configured repeatedly to be supported on Windows2003. APACHE is able to support several languages mentioned above very well, running ASP, PHP, JSP without any problems. Conclusion-APACHE supports many languages, IIS support PHP and JSP when a little trouble, need to go through a certain configuration. APACHE wins. IX. Treatment: When it comes to treatment, many readers may wonder how IIS and APACHE still have treatment problems. What we are discussing here is the treatment of network administrators. The salaries of a network administrator who knows IIS and a network administrator who knows APACHE are different. APACHE's biggest advantage is that there are many configuration parameters. If you want to master APACHE, you need a high level. So the equivalent level of network administrator will APACHE better than IIS treatment. Conclusion--Money is the only criterion for winning, APACHE is dominant. Summary: In fact, today we are here to debate IIS or APACHE is good is not very meaningful, the comparison of this article is only for those wandering in the network administrator intersection, do not know which tool to learn to build a website readers a little reference. Only after you have a general understanding of IIS and APACHE can you plan for your future. In general, Apache has the advantage of being the most complete, most widely supported, relatively stable, and extensible of all open source WWW service providers. However, due to scalability considerations, performance will certainly not be too high and can only remain at a moderate level. IIS6 is still very powerful in terms of connection and event handling performance, exceeding APACHE. In addition, IIS6 has also made a qualitative leap in security, making up for the shortcomings of IIS vulnerabilities in the past. If your company's network environment is not responsible and does not involve too much development, it is recommended to still use IIS6. Of course, if it is based on WWW development and debugging or use APACHE more handy.

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