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- Apache for Windows
- Version 1.3 (and up)
-
- What is it?
- -----------
-
- Apache is an HTTP server, originally designed for Unix systems. This
- is the first major release of Apache for Windows systems, including
- Microsoft Windows NT, 98, and 95. Like the Unix version, it includes
- many frequently requested new features, and has an API that allows it
- to be extended to meet users' needs more easily. It also allows ISAPI
- extensions.
-
- Documentation
- -------------
-
- The documentation available as of the date of this release is also
- included, in HTML format, in the <./htdocs/manual/> directory.
- For the most up-to-date documentation, visit us on the WWW at
- <http://www.apache.org/>. For Windows specific information, see
- <http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html>.
-
- WARNING
- -------
-
- Apache on Win32 has not yet been optimized for performance. Apache still
- performs best, and is most reliable on Unix platforms. Over time we
- will improve performance for Windows NT. Folks doing comparative reviews
- of webserver performance are asked to compare against Apache on a Unix
- platform such as Solaris, FreeBSD, or Linux.
-
- Apache on Win32 should still be considered beta quality code. It does not
- meet the normal standards of stability and security that Unix releases do.
-
- Installation or Compilation Instructions
- ----------------------------------------
-
- See the website <http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html> for details of
- how to install Apache from a binary release or how to compile Apache
- from scratch. This file is also included in the distribution as
- <./htdocs/manual/windows.html>.
-
- Known Problems
- --------------
-
- To get information about the current set of known problems, see our
- online bug reporting database at <http://www.apache.org/bug_report.html>.
- In particular, search for problem reports under the category "os-windows".
-
- This is a rough list of what we know has not been implemented on Win32.
-
- - The User directive is not supported. If you run apache as a service,
- you can change the user it runs as by going to
- Control Panel->Services->Startup
-
- - suexec doesn't work
-
- - RFC 1413 (IdentityCheck) is not yet ported
-
- - If you have a very busy server, when a server child process exits,
- any connections made to that child process that have not yet been
- accepted by it are aborted.
-
- - The regex library build does not generate *.ih headers.
-
- - Multithreading is not properly abstracted
-
- - htpasswd passwords are stored in plain text because Windows lacks a
- crypt() function
-
- Licensing
- ---------
-
- Please see the file called LICENSE.
-
- Acknowledgments
- ----------------
-
- We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that make up
- portions of the Apache software:
-
- Portions of this software were developed at the National Center for
- Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at
- Urbana-Champaign.
-
- This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5
- Message-Digest Algorithm, including various modifications by Spyglass Inc.,
- Carnegie Mellon University, and Bell Communications Research, Inc.
- (Bellcore).
-
- This package contains software written and copyrighted by Henry Spencer.
- Please see the file called src/regex/COPYRIGHT.
-
- The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group
- by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (www.valicert.com).
-