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>> I got a question for you all. Our cyber security team is yelling at us=20
to update Apache from 2.4.39 to 2.4.46.
> If that website is customer-facing, your cyber security team and your
> ops team should be yelling at you for running Apache on Cygwin.
>
> If you want to run Apache on Windows, you would be much better served
> by native Apache builds (as others have suggested) -
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/windows.html#down
>
> Csaba

In the past, I've used the Cygwin Apache instance for local testing when =

no Linux systems were available (i.e. old Windows hardware was all that=20
was immediately available).=C2=A0 It gave us a good Posix like environmen=
t=20
and allowed us to test the effects of various configurations with=20
greater freedom, control, and much faster than we would otherwise have=20
had if we were forced to go through the corporate bureaucracy and wait=20
for web administrators, System Admins, purchaseing, setup,=20
configuration, and networking of a real or virtual system (at that time=20
Docker wasn't available to us either).

Windows based Apache installations are a good choice when possible, but=20
they are not always the same as their Linux/Posix counterparts and if=20
you are not concerned with the speed of execution (and you have only=20
Windows based hardware available); but just with testing functionality,=20
Cygwin offered a great way to setup a compatible environment with an=20
Apache server.


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