7 ms·
I know it's probably not "open source-y" enough for you, but IIS just uses plain ol' XML files for configuration.
by blakeyrat 11y ago
I know it's probably not "open source-y" enough for you, but IIS just uses plain ol' XML files for configuration.
- chrshawkes 11y agoIIS sucks, not because it's not open source, but because it sucks to work with, when compared to NGINX or Apache.
- CrLf 11y agoIs that a positive thing? Of course, like in many other cases, IIS configuration is supposed to be generated from tools, but it always needs some tweaking and XML makes it a total pain to edit.
- GlennS 11y agoSo I'd say Nginx is actually the least annoying web-server to config of those I've used: 1. Nginx 2. IIS 6 (strange metabase thing) 3. Apache (XML, mostly) 4. IIS 7, 7.5 (XML, but with some of the files scattered through your Windows directory, and also some values aren't valid in some of the files). 5. Tomcat (XML plus madness). I'd say the thing that makes all web-servers a pain is debugging which rules are passing/failing, and where are they sending their results to. I think the thing which makes Nginx easier than the others is probably that it doesn't try to support the 'shared hosting' scenario, which adds a lot of mess.