Help help help, apache on windows 2000 advance

[cs7536]

I am new at apache but so far I love the way it performs and want to make a switch from iis to apache but dont know how to configure apache to create multiple sites and if I have a site in a seperate partition how to point it to that directory. basicly I need a step by step on configuring and creating a new site. I know that it would be a virtualhost sharing the same ip I have 5 sites that I currently host on iis but want to make them work on apache.

If someone can exsplain in dummy terms I will learn and run with it please. Thank you so much for those of you that will assist me in my new server change and knowledge..

Best Regards
Cyber

 

[dementg]

You may have already seen this, but

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html

would be the best place to read about virtual hosts. You control the root directory of a web site by adding a line like:

DocumentRoot D:\WebSite

to the config file, which is usually called "httpd.conf". I haven't used Apache on windows but I'm assuming the config file is probably the same as it is on other platforms. Any commands for a specific site need to be inside that site's VirtualHost section in the config file. I haven't actually used virtual hosts yet, so I can't comment on them from personal experience. You can learn a fair amount about the config file just by reading through it.
The biggest adjustment you have to make in switching to Apache is that it was designed for text-based servers so you have to get used to working with a text config file rather than a GUI. It's possible that some GUIs exist for the windows version though.

 

[cs7536]

Thank you I got it working and will post what I found out for others to use if need to.. I thank you for your collaberation..

I am still working on trying get ftp going and php installed it willl not work on my machine..