Apache on Vista

No doubt this will get fixed in the next few months. Probably. But at the time of this writing in early June of ‘07, the official Apache 2.2 installer fails to install the Apache service and the Apache Monitor applet won’t run at all. But you can get it to work if you do the following (h/t some person on some forum I found via Google):

1. Disable User Access Control, the Vista feature that protects you from malware by dimming the display and asking you if you’re SURE you want to do anything to your system, every five minutes or so. You can do this vai a link in the Users and Groups control panel.
2. Reboot so the above takes effect.
3. Install Apache
4. Re-enable UAC if you want. Reboot.
5. Use Apache.