Apache not included
Philip Hallstrom
freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Wed Jan 25 13:58:26 PST 2006
> I'm a bit of a new user to BSD from Windows/Linux. But I recently went
> thru the 5.4 version installer and was pleased at how simple it was to
> install the Apache web server thru the sysinstall menus. After
> reinstalling with 6.0 I was surprised to find that apache wasn't an
> option from this menu.
>
> Any ideas if this is an omission or intentional? I would think a
> webserver would definitely be included in the basic config.
I'm guessing it was intentional. I can think of a lot of reasons I
wouldn't want a webserver on my box (desktop, mail server, database
server, chat server, etc...)
Easy to add though via ports or packages.
-philip
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