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"How do web servers work?"

Well just thinking, how do they work, do you need some kind of special server or can you tune it around to work on your pc?

anyway thanks for any replys.

ok, simple look at what it can do [URL]http://www.imagemagick.org/images/examples.jpg[/URL]

I've never seen any ImageMagick functions in PHP.. All PHP image functions are dependant on GD, for a good reason.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Urgh don't even mention ImageMagick. GD is superior in every
> conceivable way.
apart from resizing animated gifs (although I do believe they are improving this) and coppermine (a script i use for a php gallery) is basically built around image magick as with gd support you can't use many images types with it.

phi11ip wrote:
> but the lack of things such as PHP(mail) just do my head in.

If you mean using the mail() function in PHP on a windows machine, you can go into your php.ini file, and look for the section [mail function], and change the value of SMTP from localhost to an outgoing mail server (e.g. smtp.dsl.pipex.com).

If a program is Windows friendly, it's amazingly easy to get things sorted. Installing Perl was easy.

However other stuff, such as GD is just plain stupid as it's mainly intended for Linux servers, which is a pain.

The only thing I like about Windows is that it's far easier to manage your files using remote desktop, bit the lack of things such as .htaccess, PHP(mail) and the stubborn log files just do my head in.

Oh mate, that's a lost cause. I used to run GD on Windows, but it was mega-difficult.

I remember having intermittent .htaccess require valid user problems, but they kinda went away.. I think it's to do with different salts on Windows.. or something. You need to recreate the .htpasswd file for Windows.

GD is a real sod to set up on a Windows box however.

Perl wasn't too bad but I'm just stuck with GD, it's stupid.

In fact, does anyone here have any experience with Windows servers? It's refusing to log properly on a few of the sites, it's happened on both servers, I don't have a clue what's wrong.

Tell me if you do know and I'll post more...

Urgh don't even mention ImageMagick. GD is superior in every conceivable way.

phi11ip wrote:
> [URL]http://www.apachefriends.org/en/[/URL]
>
> It's a 55MB file but it's got everything included and set up within
> it.
>
> Let's see, we've got MySQL, Webalizer, GD image library, PHP, Perl,
> and lots of other fun stuff!
What no ImageMagick :(

I reccomend getting an old machine and installing someform of Linux on it.

Lightweight OS's with good security usually make decent web servers.