Sunday, October 8th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to run an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL right from your USB flash drive (pen drive, thumb drive). No installation. Just plug and run!
Pretty handy thing to show or discuss a dynamic web project with a client or teacher.
To get started first we need to download XAMPP Lite from ApacheFriends.org
You can get the package here:
Download XAMPP Lite
Download and extract the .zip archive.
Inside you will find a folder xampplite
Now plug-in your USB Flash Drive and copy this folder there.
Congrats!! You now have a web server on your flash drive.
Now its time to ...
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
I always had the idea Google runs on Apache. But today playing with my Web Server Detection Tool and HTTP Header Checker i noticed www.google.com to return the following HTTP Header:
URL: http://www.google.com/
HTTP Header:
Status: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=90107988a9ae4a88:TM=1157210262:LM=1157210262:S=ltFJ-O9yIsDIPVaS; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: GWS/2.1
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:17:42 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
So.. the web server google is using is GWS/2.1. Which i guess to stand for "Google Web Server".
I couldnt find any trace of it over Google Labs or elsewhere. So couldnt digg up much info on it other than a list of Google server types (from answers.com). ...
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