Download – The Apache HTTP Server Project
Apache 2.0.44 is the best available version
I have compared my experience trying to use Windows as being like driving nails with my hands, bloody, painful, and ineffective.
I realized I need to stage my web content on an actual web server, now that my development space on the public web server is gone. So I decided to try IIS: I already have it, so why not?
Well, one good reason is that I could never get it to serve me a web page. I kept getting prompted for authentication and after plodding through the online help (that never referenced authentication), i gave up and installed Apace 2.0.44. And in no time flat, I was able to serve content.
Granted, I’m not an experienced Windows users, but the premise of all these wizards and GUI control panels is that expertise is not necessary. The brain trust at MSFT have done all the hard work.
Bah. It’s very frustrating to have to work around the system to get the simplest things to work. If I hadn’t installed Cygwin and perl early on, I’d have jumped out the window weeks ago.