Questions on how to upgrade Apache

Glenn Strauss gs-cygwin.com@gluelogic.com
Thu Apr 8 18:33:25 GMT 2021


On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:37:13AM -0500, René Berber via Cygwin wrote:
> On 4/8/2021 10:49 AM, Andy Romens via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> > Is there something else Cygwin provides that I should use instead of
> > Apache? Sorry for the elementary questions, I’m still quite new to
> > this :)
> 
> 
> nginx is an alternative (NGINX Open Source. The open source web server).
> 
> Cygwin is at version 1.14.2, current version is 1.19.9 (there's a Windows
> binary at nginx.org).

lighttpd is also an alternative and is kept up-to-date in Cygwin by the
upstream lighttpd maintainer (me)

https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/lighttpd-src.html

Latest lighttpd release is lighttpd 1.4.59.
Latest lighttpd available in Cygwin is lighttpd 1.4.59.

Cheers, Glenn


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