Apache on windows questions

[Hokey]

I have always ran Apache in some type of *nix enviroment, but I have just started a new job and my current employer insists on useing Windows 2000/03 Servers, but dosent care about what WebServer software I use. I tried using IIS, and it work for most of my stuff, but there are a few things that it dosent do exacty how I want.

So the question I have for all of you is:

Which version of Apache (1.3 or 2) do you recomend using on a Windows 2000 server? .... is there wide mod support for both? .... are there mods for using the AD or local user/group accounts for directory security?

Any comments are much appreciated!

 

[siberian]

All of the above.

For full mod_ support I would stay with the 1.3.x series in general. There is a broad community of windows apache folks and just about all of the standard modules will run in both places.

 

[Hokey]

After reading through my main module (PHP), I have gone with Apache 1.3x as the base server (for now anyways).

My next delima is password protected directories using the Active Directory usernames/passwords. Right now I am thinking that I will need to use some type of auth_ldap ... anyone setup this type of authentication connection before?

 

[siberian]

People do this all the time :

http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/1.6/auth_ldap.html

You may need to use 1.4 since 1.6 has not been extensively tested.