It's handy to have the Apache version number included in the installation directory so that you can easily tell what version of Apache you have installed.How to install Apache 2.x web server on WindowsĪpache is the most popular web server. On the Custom Setup screen, I clicked the Change button and changed the installation directory to be C:\Apache2.2.4\. On the next screen, I clicked the 'Custom' radio button since I don't want Apache to be installed in the default directory, which is fairly buried. I'm not sure what happens if you leave any of these fields blank, but you're welcome to try! I'd like Apache to run on port 80 for All Users, so I went with the default radio button setting shown below. I set my Network Domain to '' and my Server Name to 'I also have a local email server running (covered in another tutorial ), so I entered an Administrator email address.
I double-clicked the Apache installer file that I downloaded, and saw the following greetings screen.Īfter clicking through a couple screens, I got to the Server Information screen. I set up my hosts file so that if I have Apache running locally, I can access it via '' or '' in addition to the previously mentioned '' and ''.Īpache has a great installer, so it's simple to set up. I can accomplish that my modifying my hosts file, located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. On my home network, I currently don't have a DNS server, but it would be nice to be able to type in a host name to access my Apache web server, too. I've configured my computer to have an IP address on my local home network of 192.168.1.106, so when I set up Apache to run on my local machine, I can access it via either '' or ''. Before downloading the SSL Apache, you're supposed to read the Cryptographic Software Notice at. On this page, the non-SSL Apache installer was called "apache_2.2.4-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi", and the SSL Apache installer (featuring OpenSSL) was called "apache_2.2.4-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8d.msi". At the time of this writing, for Windows this could be found at. If you'd like to download the Apache Web Server with SSL capabilities, you can drill down and find the Apache Web Server with SSL.
On this page, you can typically find the Apache Web Server without SSL capabilities. At the time of this writing, the Apache S W Web Server (ie, Apache Http Server), could be downloaded at.
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