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stupid question
By:Porceleindoll
Date: Saturday, 18 March 2006, 3:47 am
In Response To: Re: php or asp (Joseph)

OK, this is going to be a dumb question, but if I have a windows OS, can I use a Unix/Linux server? Or am I stuck with a windows server? Or does it just depend on what server I install?

> PHP is for Unix/Linux servers, and ASP is
> for Windows servers. They both do the same
> thing (scripting). For example, the routine
> that changes out the photos at random on
> Open House is a PHP script.

> NDN and ExFamily.org both use PHP scripts,
> while MovingOn.org uses ASP. Both types of
> servers can use Perl scripts. This message
> forum software is written with Perl.

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