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Courses Plus Student 56,696 PointsNorton is blocking the download of Cesanta Mongoose for Windows. It has been blacklisted.
Has anyone else had this issue? What would be a good alternative for following along on this path?
1 Answer
Andrew VanVlack
20,155 PointsYou can use most standard web servers. Mongoose is just the easiest. I would disable norton and go with Mongoose but if you cant (dont have control?) You can install others. Though you may have trouble with norton even after it is installed as it controls all network traffic and web servers work through network traffic.
Most other server are a little bit more complex to install but you should be able to get it running. I assume you are using windows?
Apache is the most used on the web.You could install xampp which is an easy setup for apache but that is a bit over kill unless you are doing php also http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html
nginx is also very popular on the web. It is hard to set as a service (To run a website) but running it for testing is fairly easy. Download and run in cmd. http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html
lightppd will light and normally the easiest but is not native to windows but it can be run http://lighttpd.dtech.hu/
Cherokee is a good simple. Download and run. If you need to config though it is a little odd as it is made fo a unix system. http://cherokee-project.com/doc/basics_installation_windows.html
If you have done the python or php classes you can use the same python command in windows or the same php server you installed in php class.
If you need some help with those let me know.
Andrew VanVlack