Configure Web Servers to run MapGuide Web Applications on Windows

this document is written with windows 7 as the testing platform, the process may be slightly different under windows xp. Web applications are refered in mapguide project as web extensions, but they are really the same things.

Under windows, you have the options to deploy mapguide web application to either Apache, or Tomcat, or IIS

Apache2

1. Download and Install Apache2.2.16 for Windows from ​Here. Unzip the downloaded file to anywhere, in this document, we unzip it to c:\Apache2

2. edit httpd.conf and test the installation

   cd c:\Apache2\conf
   notepad httpd.conf
   cd c:\Apache2\bin
   httpd.exe -k install
   httpd.exe -k start
   

open a browser to ​http://localhost:8080, if you see "It works", then apache installation and configuration is successful.

3. Create another config file, name it mapguide.conf with the following contents(edit it accordingly for your system)

   notepad mapguide.conf
   

Note: Attached are sample conf files.

4. start apache http server

Tomcat

IIS