Re: Web server info

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat

My simple understanding!!

Apache is a web server - it serves web pages - HTML stuff.

Tomcat is an application server - it runs Java servlets and java 
server pages that often or usually create HTML that a web server 
sends to your browser.

I see in a wiki article that .NET is considered an application server 
environmet - ASPs are the web part of it, I think.

Now that I've displayed my ignorance!!

HTH
Vern

At 09:11 AM 11/13/2007, you wrote:

> What's the difference in the two...generally speaking,
> between the Apache server and Tomcat ?
>
> After putting an example up yesterday,  I think my confusion comes
> with all those AIX terms I see used. I had to start the LDAP server
> but I had no idea why I needed to do that. That is chock full of very
> unfamilar terms. The InfoCenter is a very poor excuse for a good set of
> books on the subject.
>
> After a great deal of reading and experiments, I finally got the Apache
> server running and the IBM example "Phone Directory" up and going.
>
> Waaaay too much tweaking and twisting to get something that simple
> up and going.
>
> Did I lean anything ...probably.