How To Install Apache Server In Windows 10

This article is the outset office of our "How to install prerequisites needed for running a cocky-hosted edition of MIDAS from a Windows server" series.

It applies to self-hosted installations of a MIDAS room booking and resources scheduling system on Windows-based servers only.

This offset commodity outlines how to install Apache on Windows. Other web servers (such as Microsoft'south Cyberspace Information Services (IIS)) are as well available for Windows.

Please annotation that this article is provided "every bit is" and is correct at time of writing. For further assistance installing or configuring Apache, please refer to the vendor's own documentation/support.

Step ane - Download Apache for Windows

Apache for Windows may be freely downloaded from ApacheLounge.

Both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions are available, depending upon whether your Windows server runs a 32 or 64-bit version of Windows:

For this guide, we'll presume that the Windows server is running a 64-fleck operating system, and then we'll download Apache 2.4.52 Win64 (httpd-ii.4.52-win64-VC16.zip)

As per the information on the ApacheLounge download page, y'all'll also demand to ensure that you accept the relevant C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio installed on your server also. It's possible that this volition already be installed on your system, but if in uncertainty, download and run "vc_redist_x64.exe" (for a 64-scrap operating system), or "vc_redist_86.exe" (for a 32-bit organisation) from the links on the ApacheLounge site first.

Pace 2 - Unzip

Once the download has completed, open up the downloaded "httpd-two.4.52-win64-VC16.goose egg" file, and excerpt its contents to a suitable location on your server i.e. C:\Apache24 or D:\Apache, etc

Stride 3 - Configure Apache

Once yous've extracted Apache, we'll need to configure it. First by locating the file "httpd.conf" (which volition be in the "conf" subdirectory), and open this in a standard text editor.

By default, this configuration file assumes that you've extracted Apache to C:\Apache24. If however yous've extracted Apache to a different location (i.due east. D:\Apache), you'll need to update the ${SRVROOT} variable within in the httpd.conf file to indicate to the new location accordingly, i.e:

Ascertain SRVROOT "C:/Apache24" → Define SRVROOT "D:/Apache"

If there is no SRVROOT variable present in your httpd.conf file, and so instead you'll need to manually update all instances of "C:/Apache24", i.e.:

ServerRoot "C:/Apache24" → ServerRoot "D:/Apache"
DocumentRoot "C:/Apache24/htdocs" → DocumentRoot "D:/Apache/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/Apache24/htdocs"> → <Directory "D:/Apache/htdocs">
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Apache24/cgi-bin/" → ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "D:/Apache/cgi-bin/"

Regardless of where you extracted Apache to, you'll also demand to make the post-obit modifications to the http.conf file:

A) Add "ExecCGI" to "Options" directive:
Locate the following line:
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
...and append "ExecCGI":
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
...this tells Apache that CGI/Perl scripts are allowed outside of the cgi-bin directory
B) Locate and uncomment the post-obit line: (past removing the # symbol from the starting time of the line)
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
...and also add the following line:
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
...These two lines tell Apache how to handle .cgi/.pl files (i.e. execute them rather than present them to as text to a web browser)
C) Add the following line to the finish of the httpd.conf file:
ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
...this allows Apache to ignore the very commencement line of .cgi/.pl files which direct Apache to the install location of Perl, and instead determine the location of Perl from the Windows Registry

Step iv - Start Apache

Open up a Command or PowerShell prompt in the "bin" binder at the location where you extracted Apache (Concur "Shift" whilst correct-clicking and select "Open command window here" or "Open up PowerShell window here"):

If y'all opened a control prompt, start Apache by entering the post-obit command:

httpd.exe

If you lot opened a PowerShell prompt, showtime Apache by inbound the following control:

& "D:\Apache\bin\httpd.exe"

(Replace D:\Apache\ with the location where you previously extracted your Apache server)

If you see a Windows Firewall prompt, let access equally appropriate. If you fail to allow Apache access through your server'south firewall, other computers/devices will be unable to connect to your web server, then be sure to allow access accordingly:

If Apache (httpd.exe) fails to start with a "could not demark to accost" error, this will probable be due to some other service already running on Apache'due south default port (fourscore). Check that you don't currently take an IIS (Internet Information Services) server already running. If y'all do, you'll need to stop/disable IIS in order to run Apache (or alter the listening port on either IIS or Apache to allow both services to run concurrently. You may demand to refer to the vendor's own documentation for assistance changing server listening ports).

Step 5 - Bank check Apache

With the previous command window still open, open up your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1

If Apache is running, you should see the words "It works!" displayed in your browser:

Step vi - Install as a Windows service:

When y'all close the command/PowerShell window, Apache will exit.
Nevertheless, to ensure that Apache is running all the time, information technology can rapidly be installed equally a Windows service.
Simply open an administrative control prompt or PowerShell prompt again, and this time enter the following, for a Control Prompt:

httpd.exe -g install

...or in a PowerShell Prompt:

Beginning-Process PowerShell -Verb RunAs

This ensures that PowerShell is running equally an administrator. And so enter:

& "D:\Apache\bin\httpd.exe" -m install

(Supervene upon D:\Apache\ with the location where you previously extracted your Apache server)You should then see a bulletin that the Apache2.4 service has been successfully installed.

You tin then start the service by typing:

internet start Apache2.4

Pace 7 - Monitor Apache (optional)

To allow y'all to monitor the current state of your Apache server, likewise as allow you to quickly start/finish/restart the server, Apache comes with a pocket-size utility called "Apache Monitor".
Double click ApacheMonitor.exe from the bin binder to run the utility, or identify a shortcut to, in your Startup folder so that it automatically runs whenever Windows starts.

TIP: To quickly locate your Startup folder on Windows ten and afterward, printing WinKey + R and and then type "shell:startup" (current user) or "shell:common startup" (all users)