-------------------------------------------------- From: "William A. Rowe Jr." <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 20 March, 2010 18:18 To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Locked Apache configuration file
On 3/20/2010 1:02 PM, Daniel Reinhardt wrote:Why not install Apache and other web serving stuff into a non-protected directory like c:\usr\local\apacheMy c:\usr is quite locked down, thank you very much :)You can customize your installation locations.We already enable that in the MSI installer.C:\Program Files is protected by the OS.C:\ Root is protected by the OS as well. The point isn't to run it as a unix app on windows, but to be a first class citizen. To do that, it's all about respecting conventions. It appears that convention is now C:\ProgramData\Vendor\Application\ The idea moving fowards is there is only one copy of the program, by default in the usual location, but the ability to install a skeleton of a service (conf, logs, htdocs) anywhere, usually ProgramData as the global/system server, but optionally a private-for-one-user flavor in their own \Users\[username]\AppData\Local [or Roaming?] profile, if they like. Still working this through. Making win32 more unix-like doesn't help win32 folks become acquainted with Apache, very much. But if you like to install everything under c:\opt\httpd you are welcome to do that, instead :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
William,You pretty much missed the entire point of my post, as it went clear over your head. You can install anything you want and have it reside outside of c:\program files and it would still work.
On 64bit Windows it comes with 2 Program Files and they are: c:\program files which is for 64bit applications, and then there is c:\program files(x86)\ which is for 32bit applications. There is no default or conventional way of installing things on Windows or Linux.
Reread my reply to you a little bit slower, and you will see what I was trying to say. THe directory path I was giving you as an example was just that an example. I use WAMP Server, and I installed it on my D: drive under d:\apache2.
I am not making it more unix like. Thanks,Daniel
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