Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <42A57DE9.9C358C33@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 03:58:49 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Re :Re: apache start problem References: <000201c56a9b$5a213cd0$8b2fb5d5 AT keloasc60pobkb> <000401c56b4d$6f56a3d0$d62fb5d5 AT keloasc60pobkb> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > 1.I have never tried to create any username in Cygwin (Because I don't know > how!).Also,I haven't given any username to apache.just I typed "apachectl > start".How can I create a username in cygwin? > 2.I have a very weak dial-up internet connection and downloading files with > sizes more than 3..4 MB is difficult for me.so I prefer compiling source > packages in my SuSe8.0 Cd's rather than downloading binaries from internet. Cygwin does not have 'users' of its own. Cygwin uses the user accounts in Windows. To add a user to Cygwin, create that user using the normal Windows methods. But this is not required at all. In unix the unprivileged user account is typically named 'nobody'. In Windows, it's typically Guest. So, just change your httpd.conf to use Guest. But really you should just comment that out alltogether because the preferred way to run Apache is via a service, not with apachectl. Unless you're using 9x or ME don't even touch apachectl. Install the service and use "net start"/"net stop" (or cygrunsrv) to start and stop it. In this case it will be running as the SYSTEM user. The Cygwin-packaged Apache documentation covers this. Furthermore, using an ancient Apache is a bad idea for a number of reasons. First, there are probably countless security vulnerabilities. There are also likely to be things that will need to be patched to work with Cygwin in a version of Apache that old. You should really use the Cygwin packaged version of Apache, which is only 1.3MB. If you have problems downloading over dialup you should get a good download manager that will let you resume the transfer without starting over. There is no reason to limit yourself because of slow download speeds, with the proper software it becomes a non-issue. You do not need to download the files with setup.exe, you can download them with any program and then use setup.exe to install them. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/