Apache with IIS

[yamangman]

I wanted to install Apache onto an XP SP2 machine with IIS already installed, wanting them to function independantly both with virtual local testing servers, can someone give me some info about going about this.

[malfunction]

Bascially I imagine all you'll need to change are the default ports (HTTP and HTTPS) for either Apache or IIS... Other than that they should both be happy (as long as you aren't trying to do something like let them both use the same files at the same time)

[yamangman]

So, how do I do that then?

[malfunction]

So, how do I do that then?

Should you be installing both on the same machine if you don't know how to do that?



For IIS you need to open up the management console ("Internet Services Manager"), open up the root level in the left hand bar so that you can see "Default Web Site", right click that (edit: and then left click properties) and then change the port(s)... Might I ask why you want to do this?

[yamangman]

Dosn't appear to work, I installed Apache and the default web site appears as a stop sign reading 'error'.

Isn't there a way I could assign Apache to 81.178.207.37 and IIS to 127.0.0.1?

[malfunction]

You *might* need to restart the service / PC to get IIS to use a different port

Edit: I presume you mean that the default IIS website is shown when you try and connect to port 80...

[yamangman]

No, I meant Apache rules the roost when I type localhost

So how do I use localhost with different ports? Or do you mean I switch IIS back to port 80 when I went to use it? I don't think that would work, I think Apache takes control even when IIS is on port 80.

[malfunction]

If for example you've switched IIS to port 81 you'd type:

localhost:81/mypath/mypage.html

[yamangman]

AHhh, thanks you ver much. Can I map ports with their IP address to host names in the Windows HOSTS file, somthing like this:

127.0.0.1:8080 iishost

127.0.0.1:80 apachehost

??

[malfunction]

Not that I know of no.

[ikonia]

no -that can't be done with hosts files / DNS, you can only use port forwarding to that service but that fact that your stuggling with simple port mappings suggests your way out of your league and need a little reading on the basics of running a webserver

[malfunction]

One simple thing you could do is do a browser based redirect...

I.e. if you had a html file sitting at:

localhost/iis.html

It would redirect you to

localhost:8080

However you really haven't stated your case for running both... Are you just trying to compare them? Or learn ASP and PHP? (you can run PHP under IIS anyway)...

[ikonia]

can you do redirects to ports ? probably but I don't think I've ever tried

[aidanjt]

yea, use ASP or PHP to do a low level http redirect responce to the client.

[yamangman]

Thanks malfunction. I'm trying to to get more competent with PHP and may upload a website, but i'm tired of using IIS/PHP and want to use Apache seeing as most web hosts are Apache/PHP.

Trying to get PHP working with Apache now, i've included the line 'LoadModule php4_module C:/php-4.3.10-Win32/sapi/php4apache2.dll' and tried a few simple PHP scripts, but firefox just shows all page code for .php pages and IE dosn't execute scripts, so obviously PHP isn't working, so I need some help with that too if you have any ideas.

[ikonia]

you need the application hanndler in the config

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

so that it understands to use the php functionality for .php files