Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers

Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by teh_klev on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:16PM (#10089701)

> Lack of choice to[o].

You can run Apache and Tomcat on windows if you so choose. You can even run nginx (albeit on top of Cygwin) [0].

You also don't need IIS to run HTTP endpoints. That said, IIS7+ is a pretty nice web server (I speak from experience as a shared web hoster ops and dev person). It's got a plethora of knobs and dials for tuning and is extensible (via native or managed code modules and handlers). But as always, horses for courses and all that.

[0]: http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/

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Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by scooley on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:53PM (#10093857)

Confirming nginx works in Windows -- nginx for our QuickStart guides: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

IIS is great too and in-box. It's nice having smart defaults but a lot of options.

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Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by UK-AL on Thursday August 20, 2015 @04:29AM (#10090564)

I'm not saying you can't run it. It's just that IIS is the default.

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