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Re: Is CygWin the thing for UNIX compatible web development on Windows?
- To: Raith Munro <raith at ineffable dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Is CygWin the thing for UNIX compatible web development on Windows?
- From: Stipe Tolj <tolj at wapme-systems dot de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:49:16 +0200
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Wapme Systems AG
- References: <001201c10abc$054f5860$1b00a8c0@purpledell>
Hi Raith,
> I would be grateful for even a simple yes/no answer to my dilemma... (I am
> completely new to CygWin and I did read the FAQ)
>
> I want to use my Windows computer to develop a web site that will be hosted
> on UNIX and needs to use some UNIXy features; symbolic links, the passwd
> program for controlling HTaccess password files and some sort of email
> sender (sendmail?).
>
> I am currently using the Win32 ports of Apache, PHP4, MySQL and Perl and
> this works great but I am unable to use the features I mentioned above. Is
> CygWin a likely solution to my problem? I presume I'll also need to find
> CygWin compatible binary distros of Apache, PHP4, MySQL and Perl (I don't
> want to convert/compile them myself).
You may use the cygwin ports of Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.x to develop on a Win32
system and copy the same setup to a UNIX based machine
Check these URLs
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
http://apache.dev.wapme.net/
Regards,
Stipe
tolj@wapme-systems.de
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