Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B547A9C.AAE45915@wapme-systems.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:49:16 +0200 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Wapme Systems AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0322b (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raith Munro CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is CygWin the thing for UNIX compatible web development on Windows? References: <001201c10abc$054f5860$1b00a8c0@purpledell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: info@wapme-systems.de Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/