Questions on how to upgrade Apache
Brian S. Wilson
wilson96@comcast.net
Fri Apr 9 11:59:35 GMT 2021
>> I got a question for you all. Our cyber security team is yelling at us
to update Apache from 2.4.39 to 2.4.46.
> If that website is customer-facing, your cyber security team and your
> ops team should be yelling at you for running Apache on Cygwin.
>
> If you want to run Apache on Windows, you would be much better served
> by native Apache builds (as others have suggested) -
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/windows.html#down
>
> Csaba
In the past, I've used the Cygwin Apache instance for local testing when
no Linux systems were available (i.e. old Windows hardware was all that
was immediately available). It gave us a good Posix like environment
and allowed us to test the effects of various configurations with
greater freedom, control, and much faster than we would otherwise have
had if we were forced to go through the corporate bureaucracy and wait
for web administrators, System Admins, purchaseing, setup,
configuration, and networking of a real or virtual system (at that time
Docker wasn't available to us either).
Windows based Apache installations are a good choice when possible, but
they are not always the same as their Linux/Posix counterparts and if
you are not concerned with the speed of execution (and you have only
Windows based hardware available); but just with testing functionality,
Cygwin offered a great way to setup a compatible environment with an
Apache server.
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