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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