[ms4w-users] Help with MS4W installation

[Paul Spencer]

Stephen, I'd rather keep this on the list as this is pretty useful 
information for others who have the same issues.

I did try extracting the ms4w_0.7.zip and running apache, no problems at 
this end using either http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/.

Please make sure that you extracted to the root of one of your drives, 
like c: or d: (preferrably c:, it means everything will just work).

this means that if you look in explorer, you should see a directory 
structure like:

c:\ms4w
c:\ms4w\Apache
c:\ms4w\apps
c:\ms4w\httpd.d
c:\ms4w\proj
c:\ms4w\tmp

if you don't see this then it won't work.

Cheers,

Paul


Stephen Wallace wrote:
> Paul
> 
> I did remember to turn off IIS, but after the installation.
> I tried the httP://localhost with the apache window open and closed.
> 
> I am going to check the installation path info in the readme and
> packaging.txt again.
> It seems to be correct but will check again.
> 
> Should I reply to direct to you or send emails such as this to the list.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba@magma.ca]
> Sent: November 5, 2003 9:14 AM
> To: gis@gisrs.com
> Cc: ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] Help with MS4W installation
> 
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> the blank window is expected, it appears as a result of running the
> Apache executable.
> 
> I will check the ms4w installer and see if there is a problem with it,
> but we have been using this for a while.
> 
> One possibility, you mentioned IIS.  Is it possible that you have IIS
> and Apache running at the same time?  The default configuration for both
> 
> is to listen on port 80, but that can be changed if necessary.
> 
> Another possibility:  are you leaving the empty window open, or closing
> it?  You will need to leave it open, or install Apache as a service as
> indicated in the README.txt file.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
> Stephen Wallace wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello list
>>
>>I have attempting to install MS4W
>>
>>I initialized the MS4W apache web server by running apache.exe and a
>>blank command window appeared.
>>
>>Next to test if apache is running correctly I tried http:/localhost/
>>and
>>http://127.0.0.1 in widows explorer and both came back as unable to
> 
> find.
> 
>>Any suggestions ?
>>
>>Thank You
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Stephen Wallace
>>
> 
> 
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