
Login and consistency of interface and configuring Apache is like Windoze - popular, but hard to figure out why as it is so bloated and awkward. We are about move all of our servers from Apache to Abyss. Things that take Apache down are barely a blip for Abyss. As an added bonus you can often get features added to the products based on your own suggestions!īeen using Abyss for years now in a commercial web hosting environment and it has been PERFECTLY stable. ProVue made the second piece of software for the Mac and it is still around.īuy small and buy quality as it will save time and money (even over the "free" products).

You often get MUCH better products, better support, and surprisingly longer life products. I now recommend dealing mostly with small companies that make great products such as ProVue (makes the great database Panorama), HindSight (photo business software), Aprelium, etc. They actually read your questions and give reasonable and quick answers even for complex issues.Īfter wasting years of my life with open source products such as Apache where you search in forum after forum for months only to get numerous stupid and wrong answers especially when dealing with utterly absurd mod_rewrite and, after dealing with the big companies such as Adobe, Epson, Apple, Micro$oft, Comcast, etc where the techs often times know little and deny obvious bugs, dealing with Aprelium is a breath of fresh air. The tech support for Abyss is great!! With the very reasonably priced Pro version, you get priority support. I regretfully have to take off a star for not being 64bit on Mac yet. Works great as a PHP testing server, IMHO, as well. That said, never had a hacking issue with it either, but then again I practice lots of safeguards I won't get into here.įantastic server. If you don't have any clue about how to run them, you probably shouldn't be opening up your computer/server/whatever to the world anyway. The interface isn't perfect and there's a lot of areas that are not going to be self-explainatory, but hey, it's a web server. I try out MAMP every now and then, shrug. I've never had it crash or interfere with anything else on any computer.Īs a testing server, I've found it better than MAMP and it doesn't download huge amount of crap like MAMP does and they aren't pushy (like the MAMP people are) about getting the paid version. I just realized I've been using this a really long time and I don't remember if I've ever reviewed it here. Hmmm, it would also be nice to see a very minimalistic CMS. My major wish now is for Aprelium to create a FTP server. Since it is easy to change the XML config file, I just wrote my own simple admin program in the database Panorama and do bulk changes to hundreds of web sites in just a few seconds.

While the web browser admin interface works well and it easy to figure out (with the ever-present contextual help button), I would like to see some changes in just the look and feel and the ability to do bulk changes. htaccess files right there in the admin console rather than in hiddn files scattered all over the machine! It's also nice to do most of the features of. You forget it is there as you only need to access it for adding new virtual hosts. All the major features are now there.Ībyss is fast, hyper-stable, very low memory and CPU usage, and feature rich and their email support is nearly impeccable. I can only recall one crash (it actually may have been the fault of the OS) and only one difficult to pin down bug (involved PHP).Īnd now, with the latest version they have added the one essential feature that I have needed - log rotation. LAMP: It is an old classic industry standard when it comes to time-tested web development stacks, which comprises MySQL (Relational Database Management), Linux (Operating System), PHP (Programming Language), and Apache (HTTP server).I've now used Abyss for around a decade for commercial web hosting on multiple servers and it has probably been the most stable and near bug free piece of software that I have ever used. To serve it, a group of developers created a web server, which is now known as the Apache Web Server. Https:/// this will tell you everything you need to know probably.ĭuring the pioneer area of the World Wide Web, the content was static. You may need to replace some Docker commands with equivalents.Ĭlient-Server Architecture Made Easy (With Examples)Īpache is one of the most popular web servers. If you already have a properly-configured development environment with Apache 2.x, PHP 8.1.x with the MongoDB extension and Composer, you can use that instead. NOTE: This tutorial uses a Docker-based Apache/PHP/MongoDB development environment. Build a Speech-to-Text Web Application with Rev AI and PHP (Part 1).
