Installing a PWS

[Ladyborg]

I'm running XP Pro, I see windows option to install PWS (Personal Web Server). I've read with XP Pro I should install IIS instead. All this is for writing and testing my Perl scripts. Anyone know if it's true? Ladyborg
"Don't be afraid to try new things,
Remember: professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark"

 

[donutzeatpeople]

I don't know much about XP or either of those servers. But I am on 98 and I use Xitami web server to test my scripts. I'd go with the server which takes the least time to set up and configure, because you don't need it for much more that script testing right?

 

[goBoating]

If you are going to do any serving off of that machine, forget PWS. I run a Win2K box with IIS on and am constantly applying security and maintenance patches. I also run several linux and solaris machines with apache. Some maintenance is required, but, it is far less that with the Win OS systems.

Apache is free, robust, and fairly straight forward to setup. An hour getting Apache running would be an hour well spent. For windows, it comes as a double-click install executable. Pretty easy. There might be a little tweaking to get CGI running, but the docs cover that well and you could always post questions here or in the CGI forum. 'hope this helps

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[Ladyborg]

Thanks for the inputs, I only need the server for testing scripts. I've downloaded Apache.

Thanks again.

BTW, what do you use to write (and edit) your scripts? Just notepad or something else? Ladyborg
"Don't be afraid to try new things,
Remember: professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark"

 

[Coderifous]

Vim. For windows get Vim. It rocks. It's like Unix's Vi editor, but it's for windows. It has syntax highlighting for TONS of different languages (including Perl and even Apache Conf files!)

http://www.vim.org

--jim

 

[JustKIDn]

I like to use Open Perl IDE

http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/

It sure is nice to step through the code line by line and see what each variable is doing. And figure out why it's not doing what you think.

Open Perl IDE is free and is Open Source. For Win x

The latest version is 0.9.9 so I guess that means it's still beta.

I'm just a user of Open Perl IDE and have no ties to it except that I like it and it appears to be quite stable.

Hope this helps!

 

[donutzeatpeople]

I use EditPlus, I love it. I've used DZSoft Perl editor before, and I find it not as good. Although it has good debugging features.