HOW TO: Migrate Apache Settings to Apache for Windows in a UNIX-to-Windows Migration

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This article was previously published under Q323974

SUMMARY

After you install Apache for Windows as part of your migration process, you may want to migrate your Apache configuration file to Windows. If so, you have make some minor modifications to the file. This article describes which directives to modify.

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Directory References

You must change references to files or directories in the configuration file. Specifically, check the directory references in the following directives:

AccessConfig
AddIcon
AddIconByEncoding
AddIconByType
AddType
Alias
CustomLog
DefaultIcon
DefaultType
Directory
DocumentRoot
ErrorDocument
ErrorLog
LoadModule
Location
MIMEMagicFile
PidFile
ResourceConfig
ScriptAlias
ServerRoot
TypesConfig

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User Directories

UNIX and Windows use different methods for supporting users and user directories. In Apache, you use the UserDir directive to specify the location of user directories. Windows does not support the same method. Instead, you must use Alias directives to map a user directory in the ~user format that is used in Apache for UNIX.

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REFERENCES

For additional information about how to prepare servers for migrating from UNIX to Windows, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

323970 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323970/EN-US/ ) HOW TO: Prepare the Target Server for a UNIX-to-Windows Migration

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