Good luck (sincerely) on your question but as you clearly know, doing anything on Vista is difficult at best. Heck, I'm still having trouble getting IE to behave (it misrenders a lot of valid .html and css; doesn't get prologs right on .php pages, etc ad nauseum). FWIW, though, Apache 1.x is reputed (untested!) to be installable on Vista.
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I do have 2.2.4 installed, but running is something else.
I did read on one site that running Apache in XP compatibility mode is the ticket, but I still haven't gotten it to run as a service like on a straight XP intalliation.
Gotta love Vista... :p
Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars.
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code