Microsoft windows server 2003 server is a product of Microsoft and is the successor of windows server 2000 and is more scalable and better in performance than windows 2000 server. It was released on April 24,2003. Windows server 2003 has its latest version is 5.2 and it is said that it is the cornerstone of windows server system line of business server products. Windows server 2003 is also referred to as Win2K3. It’s basically a server operating system which is very capable for managing server and have excellent performance.
Following are important components :-
IIS - IIS is a a set of information based services for the servers which are using microsoft windows. IIS was previously called Internet Information Server but now it is called as Internet Information services. After Apache HTTP server the world’s second web server which is most popular in terms of overall websites is none other but IIS server .According to netcraft IIS server has served 35.39% of all websites.The servers currently include FTP, SMTP, NNTP, and HTTP/HTTPS.
Windows security :- IF you are using Microsoft’s windows XP and Windows vista operating systems then it is possible for you to view the status of computer security settings and services thanks to Windows Security Center which is a component included in both of them. Also,the user is informed if there is a problem in the security settings by a pop-up notification balloon as windows security center continuously monitors these settings.
Firewall :- A device or a set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains which is based upon a set of rules and certain other criteria’s is called as firewall.
Antivirus :- Antivirus can be described as a software package which studies the data such as email file attachments or web file transfers, to detect worms, viruses, trojan horses or other malware and to prevent the malware being activated on target computers or other systems.Signature databases are used by antiviruses to find out the different viruses. Arkoon FAST360 appliances include antivirus software developed and which are continuously updated by Sophos, Which is Europe’s leading antivirus developing company.
IE7 Browsers :- IE7 is a short form for windows internet explorer.It is a web browser for Windows vista, Windows XP SP2 and Windows server 2003 SP1 launched by microsoft in late 2006.It is offered as a replacement for Internet explorer 6 on Windows XP via Windows update as it ships as the default browser in Vista.It coincided with the release of Windows Vista,as it is a part of long line of the different versions of internet explorer and the first major version of the browser in round about say 5 years.While sources do not agree to what is said that about IE7’s global market share,the rough idea given from three sources in February 2008 estimates from 23% to 44%).When combined with IE6, the two browsers represent the majority of browsers worldwide.
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You can also create a directory for PHP at c:\php and can extract all files of PHP.ZIP in this folder. Now just copy few files to your Apache directory ( C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\).
Usually Apache have its document root set to htdocs directory, this document root is that folder where you must put all your PHP or HTML files which can be processed by Apache and thus can be seen by your browser. If you want to have point it to other directory you can do so anytime you want. Configuration file for Apache is stored in C:/ProgramFiles/ApacheGroup\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf. this file is a plain text file which can be edit using notepad.