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[GG-Duo]

Recently I have been getting interested in having a personal site.
So I've done a bit of loose research regarding this (ie. dicking around) and I have the following questions:

1.) When I rent "hosting", am I renting the machine that hosts the actual HTML files as well? Or does the company handle that?

2.) Besides the Jakarta Apache software, how else can I set a machine to be a web server?

3.) As a follow-up to (2), how is HTTP done on a Linux or Unix machine?

4.) If I am making a Web Application, and I don't want to shell out thousands of dollars for an App Server, is Tomcat the thing to look at? What is the .Net equivalent to Tomcat?

5.) Is it possible mix and match... ie. To have a site written in PHP and JSP? I'm not sure why would anyone want to do that, but I'm curious.

 

[alejob]

Recently I have been getting interested in having a personal site.
So I've done a bit of loose research regarding this (ie. dicking around) and I have the following questions:

1.) When I rent "hosting", am I renting the machine that hosts the actual HTML files as well? Or does the company handle that?

2.) Besides the Jakarta Apache software, how else can I set a machine to be a web server?

3.) As a follow-up to (2), how is HTTP done on a Linux or Unix machine?

4.) If I am making a Web Application, and I don't want to shell out thousands of dollars for an App Server, is Tomcat the thing to look at? What is the .Net equivalent to Tomcat?

5.) Is it possible to have seemless integration between http, php, jsp, and asp pages?

1) They handle that.
2) IIS, Tomcat.
3)Don't understand, its done automatically I guess.
4)Yes, tomcat is good. .NET = IIS.
5) Woot? You mean pass info between pages? Don't know.
6)Keep researching, you're confused!
7) Probably someone beat me and posted allready.

 

[GG-Duo]

Wait, Tomcat is an Http Server as well? I thought it serves JSPs?

Or it's both?

 

[alejob]

Dude, every webserver technology uses HTTP. You don't have to worry about HTTP, you don't do anything with it.

 

[alejob]

Tomcat uses JSP, IIS uses ASP, Apache uses PHP.

HTTP = HyperText Transfer Protocol. Its the way info moves across the web. Every web server transfers info.

 

[iapetus]

Wait, Tomcat is an Http Server as well? I thought it serves JSPs?

Or it's both?

Tomcat can serve static pages as well as Servlets and JSPs, but it's not as good at it as a real web server, of course.

2) IIS, Tomcat.

With my pedant hat on, Tomcat is part of the Jakarta Apache software.

 

[sefskillz]

Tomcat uses JSP, IIS uses ASP, Apache uses PHP.

Apache and IIS can both be modified to support many languages.. don't use this as a strict guideline.

Yes, you can pass information between pages, no matter what implementation they're using, through cgi variables.

 

[alejob]

Tomcat can serve static pages as well as Servlets and JSPs, but it's not as good at it as a real web server, of course.



With my pedant hat on, Tomcat is part of the Jakarta Apache software.

Haha, I don't know anything about Apache. i downloaded Tomcat from Suns website and used that.