Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/01/14/16:35:00
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a standard install of Apache should be fine. after that, ask the apache
people for setup stuff. they will help.
Jay Abel wrote:
> I must have googled the wrong terms, for the only reference I found
> [apparently] left out a few details. My installation of XP (home)
> wouldn't allow the service to run as system (it would just exit with a
> cryptic error from Windows that it wasn't allowed to do something vague
> -- I suspect it was trying to change users but I don't know for sure).
>
> If run as another user the setup of the var directory is critical, all
> permissions need to be just so or it exits without starting (or giving
> any useful error message in the log file). Also, the paths as
> distributed don't agree with the ones in the howto from apache.org, I
> couldn't find / didn't know where to look for, a *real* cygwin version
> by the package maintainer.
>
> I'm sure that such a howto exists but I just couldn't find it. Could
> someone who has set up apache as a service please point me to the
> correct document if it exists?
>
> I did finally get it running as a service, but that required setting
> permissions on /var/run more permissive than I would like. Sadly on XP
> home, you cannot define new groups so you have to choose from
> Administrators, Users, or None. I don't want apache to run as an
> administrator for security reasons, but I'm not sure that giving write
> access to the /var/run directory to Users is a good thing either (am I
> wrong here?).
>
> I suppose there is a way to tell apache to put its .pid file in a
> different directory, so this might be the best approach if I knew how to
> do it. (like /var/run/apache/...)
>
> If the howto is in need of work, I'm not just complaining, but willing
> to work on it under the maintainer's direction if such help is needed
> and wanted.
>
> I was running the native version of apache but plan to migrate this
> server to linux once volume picks up and didn't want a horrible job
> fixing things when I do that, so it seemed like a reasonable thing to
> switch to the cygwin version. So far, other than the problem with the
> /var/run directory, which I can live with, it does everything I need.
>
> I noticed while looking that httpd2 is available, should I be thinking
> about using that instead? That is, are there compelling reasons to
> switch (such as support being dropped for version 1 or significant
> improvements)?
>
> Jay
>
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