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What is WebDev?
WebDev is a application for organising web projects, and editing web pages. WebDev uses PHP as its server-side scripting language, and provides project organisation, file editing and database query design functionality.

What is PHP?
PHP is a server-side scripting language that, among other things, allows you to integrate live data from databases into your web pages. PHP scripts can be embedded into web pages, and the web server will run the scripts before sending the page back to the user's browser, inserting the results of the script into the web page data.

What is Apache?
Apache is the most popular web server software on the Internet. Apache runs on a variety of platforms including Unix and Win32. It is highly configurable, and can add extension modules onto the core server to provide specialised capabilities. There are many third party modules which can extend Apache, including the PHP module and a WebDAV module.

What is WebDAV?
WebDAV is a standard for remote authoring of documents over the web. With WebDAV, users can remotely manipulate documents on a webserver, retrieving, saving, copying and deleting their web pages. WebDev supports the WebDAV protocol.

Which webservers support the WebDAV HTTP protocol extensions?
Currently, the webservers which support WebDAV are Apache with the mod_dav module, and Microsoft IIS5. WebDev currently talks to Apache/mod_dav, and the next beta version will also support IIS5.

Can I run the WebDev server scripts with my Windows webserver (e.g. PWS/IIS) or do I need a Unix webserver?
Good question.

There are a couple of issues here. One is that the server script package is a tar/gzip, and the install script inside it relies on it running on Unix.

The second issue is that the current distribution of the server scripts was built and tested on Linux and should run OK on most Unixes. In theory the scripts themselves should also run on Windows, but there is still a problem with the WebDev-type project support, although running a created website is fine. This shouldn't stop you making local file type projects, which is probably the easiest thing to do anyway with PWS. So far we haven't had time to thoroughly test the server stuff with PWS (we are only in beta after all), which is why there isn't a package for installing it.