Comments on: Installing Apache on Vista

By: Josiah

Josiah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:51:11 +0000

I did this as presented, with cmd in admin mode, but it will not create the service at the end of the install.

I have no idea what goes wrong.

I successfully installed it once using a different tutorial, but I decided to install it to a different directory and now I can’t get it working with any tutorial, even if I go back to default directory. Apache seems to have everything proper except the service.

By: ruslan S

ruslan S — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:21:00 +0000

Great! Thanks, I even thought to change my windows back to xp because of this fault - but now its working,

By: Tom Lolosoli

Tom Lolosoli — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:01:34 +0000

Thanks a lot Mr. Simon. I am using window vista business and the step by step Apache installations has worked greatly. This is 50 % off relief the configurations I am making for Joomla in my machine.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:14:38 +0000

to all vista users:

I’m trying to find all of these tutorials I can, but YOU CANNOT INSTALL AN APACHE TESTING SERVER ON VISTA….PERIOD!

If you “trick” vista and get Apache to work, it will eventually crash (when this happens depends) and you will have to reinstall vista and lose all data unless backed up.

Hope this helps someone.

By: gcfrench: Installation

gcfrench: Installation — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:03:30 +0000

[...] Simon Whatley’s instructions, making sure to [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:12:17 +0000

@jonathan to navigate to your desktop you can do the following:

On Windows XP:

C:\Windows\system32>cd\

C:\cd Documents & Settings

C:\Documents & Settings>cd *USERNAME*

C:\Documents & Settings\*USERNAME*>cd desktop

On Windows Vista:

The user profile is found in the C:\Users directory.

By: Jonathan Newton

Jonathan Newton — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:59:13 +0000

when I open the command prompt I get C:\Windows/system32>

I can’t do anything after that. I have the apache.msi on my desktop. How do I “navigate” to it so I can install it? what am I supposed to type? I tried “cd apache.msi” at the end and it didn’t work. Help please.

By: beginner

beginner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:12 +0000

@amber

right click in your cmd
click on advanced and run as administrator
and apache monitor and restart ur apache and try ur localhost
cheers

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:17:14 +0000

@Andrew have you checked whether the Apache service is running after startup? The service may not be configured to start automatically.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:35:28 +0000

Hi Simon,
I have followed the installation steps for Apache 2.2.9 successfully and have installed and configured PHP 5.2.6 successfully. The problem exists when I shut down my note book and then start it up again Apache does not work. I have even made a copy of the original httpf.conf file and copied it into the conf folder and attempted to start Apache again but with no success. Hopefully you can help?