Recently, I was asked to reorganize some of our Web applications to improve their stability. The major push was to get each of our applications running in its own instance of Tomcat. These ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Even though IIS gets more secure with each generation, having at least a few Apache Web servers in your shop makes sense. Every month, the U.K.-based firm Netcraft takes a survey of all the sites on ...

Apache is an open source Web server and a free alternative to commercial server operating systems. Apache can serve pages in most any Web scripting language such as PHP, Perl and Python; it also ...

XAMPP is a collection of free software for installing and using the Apache Web server. Basically, it is an Apache distribution that includes the Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl an FTP server and ...