Apache Under Windows
Apache 1.3 will work under Windows NT 4.0 and 2000. Its performance under Windows 95 and 98 is not guaranteed. If running on Windows 95, the “Winsock2” upgrade must be installed before Apache will run. “Winsock2” for Windows 95 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUAdminTools/S_WUNetworkingTools/W95Sockets2. Be warned that the Dialup Networking 1.2 (MS DUN) updates include a Winsock2 that is entirely insufficient, and the Winsock2 update must be reinstalled after installing Windows 95 dialup networking. Windows 98, NT (Service Pack 3 or later), and 2000 users need to take no special action; those versions provide Winsock2 as distributed.
Apache v2 will run under Windows 2000 and NT, but, when we went to press, they did not work under Win 95, 98, or Me. These different versions are the same as far as Apache is concerned, except that under NT, Apache can also be run as a service. From Apache v1.3.14, emulators are available to provide NT services under the other Windows platforms. Performance under Win32 may not be as good as under Unix, but this will probably improve over coming months.
Since Win32 is considerably more consistent than the sprawling family of Unices, and since it loads extra modules as DLLs at runtime rather than compiling them at make time, it is practical for the Apache Group to offer a precompiled binary executable as the standard distribution. Go to http://www.apache.org/dist, and click on the version you want, which will be in the form of a self-installing .exe file (the .exe extension is how you tell which one is the Win32 Apache). Download it into, say, c:\temp, and then run it from the Win32 Start menu’s Run option.
The executable will create an Apache directory, C:\Program Files\Apache, by default. Everything to do with Win32 Apache happens in an MS-DOS window, so get into a window and type:
> cd c:\<apache directory> > dir
and you should see something like this:
Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 294C-14EE Directory of C:\apache . <DIR> 21/05/98 7:27 . .. <DIR> 21/05/98 7:27 .. DEISL1 ISU 12,818 29/07/98 15:12 DeIsL1.isu HTDOCS <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 htdocs MODULES <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 modules ICONS <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 icons LOGS <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 logs CONF <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 conf CGI-BIN <DIR> 29/07/98 15:12 cgi-bin ABOUT_~1 12,921 15/07/98 13:31 ABOUT_APACHE ANNOUN~1 3,090 18/07/98 23:50 Announcement KEYS 22,763 15/07/98 13:31 KEYS LICENSE 2,907 31/03/98 13:52 LICENSE APACHE EXE 3,072 19/07/98 11:47 Apache.exe APACHE~1 DLL 247,808 19/07/98 12:11 ApacheCore.dll MAKEFI~1 TMP 21,025 15/07/98 18:03 Makefile.tmpl README 2,109 01/04/98 13:59 README README~1 TXT 2,985 30/05/98 13:57 README-NT.TXT INSTALL DLL 54,784 19/07/98 11:44 install.dll _DEISREG ISR 147 29/07/98 15:12 _DEISREG.ISR _ISREG32 DLL 40,960 23/04/97 1:16 _ISREG32.DLL 13 file(s) 427,389 bytes 8 dir(s) 520,835,072 bytes free
Apache.exe is the executable, and ApacheCore.dll is the meat of the thing. The important subdirectories are as follows:
- conf
Where the Config file lives.
- logs
Where the logs are kept.
- htdocs
Where you put the material your server is to give clients. The Apache manual will be found in a subdirectory.
- modules
Where the runtime loadable DLLs live.
After 1.3b6, leave alone your original versions of files in these subdirectories, while creating new ones with the added extension .default — which you should look at. We will see what to do with all of this in the next chapter.
See the file README-NT.TXT for current problems.
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