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fitter_happier · 02-23-2009, 11:28 AM

No suggestions? I really want to move on from this baseline config. I know it's not going to be perfect. I mean, how can a 4th year student with little prior knowlege of these 2 web servers configure them to be 100% equal? I did my best however to make sure they were roughly set up similar. Apache has soooooo many modules that can be loaded, or are enabled and the amount of configuration options seems a lot more than the IIS 6.0 web server options. I've made sure bandwith throttling is disabled for both servers (in apache, you can't even set it up without putting in the module yourself) so that's fine, I've set the time out values to 120 seconds in both web servers, also no SSL runnin on either server. HTTP KEEP ALIVE is enabled on both. I've also commented out a few modules in Apache that I don't feel are needed in the baseline configuration. These are mod_actions, mod_alias, mod_cgi, mod, env, mod_setenvif

Other than what I've done, is there anything else anyone can think of? There isn't a whole lot of performance configurations in IIS web server anyway. I'm still to look at the security side of things but like I said, I have no SSL running and using port 80 for both. And I can't think of anything else. I will need to move on to try and finish this dissertation as I only have about 1 month and a half left and I will need to start measuring the performance of them, making comparions, and then using Denial of Service Attacks to see how security is affected by firstly the baseline config. I made, and then how it changes when I change certain server options, or load in modules etc.

Help very much appreciated, thanks.

02-23-2009, 11:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
fitter_happier Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista	Re: My web server project No suggestions? I really want to move on from this baseline config. I know it's not going to be perfect. I mean, how can a 4th year student with little prior knowlege of these 2 web servers configure them to be 100% equal? I did my best however to make sure they were roughly set up similar. Apache has soooooo many modules that can be loaded, or are enabled and the amount of configuration options seems a lot more than the IIS 6.0 web server options. I've made sure bandwith throttling is disabled for both servers (in apache, you can't even set it up without putting in the module yourself) so that's fine, I've set the time out values to 120 seconds in both web servers, also no SSL runnin on either server. HTTP KEEP ALIVE is enabled on both. I've also commented out a few modules in Apache that I don't feel are needed in the baseline configuration. These are mod_actions, mod_alias, mod_cgi, mod, env, mod_setenvif Other than what I've done, is there anything else anyone can think of? There isn't a whole lot of performance configurations in IIS web server anyway. I'm still to look at the security side of things but like I said, I have no SSL running and using port 80 for both. And I can't think of anything else. I will need to move on to try and finish this dissertation as I only have about 1 month and a half left and I will need to start measuring the performance of them, making comparions, and then using Denial of Service Attacks to see how security is affected by firstly the baseline config. I made, and then how it changes when I change certain server options, or load in modules etc. Help very much appreciated, thanks.