Hi -- Sorry for a slighly non-perl question but I am quite stuck and am wondering if any Monks can offer advice.

Disclaimer: I am quite new to Apache and mod_perl.

I'm trying to develop code on a windows box to later run unchanged on a linux apache production server. I first tried the native win apache binaries with indigo mod-perl. The problem is that that system (I believe) doesn't support libapreq, so I can't use Apache::Cookie or Apache::Logfile. I don't a windows C++ compiler so I couldn't / didn't want to try compiling Apache on windows.

So next I opted to install Cygwin and try to run Apache thru it. I used the Cygwin setup.exe program and asked for 'install everything', which it did, and which (I think) should have included Apache. Cygwin seems to have installed OK; I can run the shell and emacs and the windowing system and such. However, while the apache docs are there, and apachectl and httpd.exe are there, I can not start apache, either from w/in Cygwin or from outside. Here's an example 
AAA@sam /usr/sbin
$ ls ap*
apachectl  apxs

AAA@sam /usr/sbin
$ apachectl
bash: apachectl: command not found

[download]
Here's another 
AAA@sam ~
$ httpd
bash: httpd: command not found

[download]
I am quite confused.
Can someone suggest the how I can run apache on a win box and use Apache::Cookie and Apache::Logfile?

Many thanks

nop

In reply to (OT) apache and modperl and cygwin by nop

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