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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:24:42+00:00

I’m trying to get an Apache server running on my Cygwin setup to follow

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I’m trying to get an Apache server running on my Cygwin setup to follow the Java Ranch Cattle Drive tutorials online (basically, to learn Java EE web page development that uses a MySQL back end.)

I used the Cygwin Setup program to install httpd (which is how I installed most other dev tools I use on cygwin) and it says install complete, yet when I run ‘httpd’ it cannot find the command. It also appears the expected install directory (/usr/local/apache…) doesn’t exist.

Does anyone have any experience using this setup, and if so, you could walk me through the initial steps of getting the server up and running and getting a browser to display the server’s default page?

To keep answers focused, I didn’t want to discus the drawbacks of running Apache on a Windows system – this is just for learning purposes. Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looking at the Cygwin Package Listing for httpd, you can see that the executable is installed under /usr/sbin.

    So, if /usr/sbin is not on your PATH (it isn’t on mine, not by default anyhow), you would actually run:

    /usr/sbin/httpd

    And btw, if you would like to list the files installed for a certain package, you can use cygcheck:

    cygcheck -l httpd
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