[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 76933] NRWT fails to launch/kill Apache for Apple's Windows port

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76933


Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at webkit.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at webkit.org>  2013-05-23 09:55:42 PST ---
There seems to be a number of problems with Cygwin and Apache.  Cygwin no longer ships Apache 1, and I cannot get the current build of Apache 2.2 that they distribute to run under Windows 7 or Windows 8.

The lighttpd program seems to work properly, and starts up and shuts down cleanly under Cygwin.  This seems like a better options, especially since this is how Blink is doing things.

I briefly attempted to use the stock Apache Foundation's Windows build, but this was even more trouble: The PID generated by the program was a Windows PID (not a Cygwin PID), so the Cygwin kill logic did not properly stop the program.  Even after writing conversion logic to get the Cygwin PID from the Windows PID, I found that Apache forks on Windows (creating at least two processes), only one of which is visible to Cygwin.  Disaster!

I am switching the Apple Windows port to lighttpd.

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