Configure Web Servers on Windows

this document is written with windows 7 as the testing platform, the process may be slightly different under windows xp. Web servers are refered in mapguide project as web extensions, but they are really the same things.

Under windows, you have the options to configure mapguide with either Apache, or Tomcat, or IIS

Apache2

1. Download and Install Apache2.2.16 for Windows from ​Here. Unzip the downloaded file to anywhere, in this document, we unzip it to c:\Apache2

2. edit httpd.conf

   cd c:\Apache2\conf
   notepad httpd.conf
   

Create another config file, name it mapguide.conf with the following contents(edit it accordingly for your system)

notepad mapguide.conf

Note: Attached are sample conf files.

Tomcat

IIS