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From: "William A. Rowe Jr." <[email protected]>
Sent: 20 March, 2010 18:18
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] 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\apache
My 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 :)
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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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