Today I was able to get Apache2 running on Cygwin *1.5* using these instructions: http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/895433/apache2_does_not_start_in_cygwin.html
The "CYGWIN=server" variable was critical. I now have Cygwin 1.7 installed side-by-side with 1.5, and as far as I can tell, the two do not interfere. However, I am unable to launch apache2 in Cygwin 1.7. Initially I followed the same directions, and got this: $ echo $CYGWIN $ export CYGWIN=server $ cygserver-config ... $ net start cygserver The CYGWIN cygserver service is starting. The CYGWIN cygserver service was started successfully. $ /usr/sbin/apachectl2 start /usr/sbin/apachectl2: line 78: 1372 Bad system call $HTTPD -k $ARGV Hmmm. I checked the 1.7 change log and it says that the "CYGWIN=server" setting is now obsolete. However leaving this out doesn't help either. Note that I made sure I shut down cygserver from 1.5 before I tried it with 1.7, and I also have apache2 configured to listen on different ports, just in case they were both running at the same time (which I didn't allow anyway). So there must be something different with 1.7 that isn't covered by those instructions - does anyone know what this might be, please? -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
