Welcome!

zangweb is a Windows binary installation of:

• The Apache web server
• MySQL database server
• the Perl language (plus plenty of Perl modules)
• mod_perl, "a persistent Perl interpreter" for Apache.

zangweb was designed to get a Windows web developer up and developing quickly on this powerful Open Source platform. It includes examples for cgi-bin, mod_perl + MySQL, and static HTML.

Download and install

System requirements

zangweb has been tested to run on Windows 2000/XP/2003 server and client editions.

You need about 250MB on your hard disk to install (don't worry, the setup file you'll download is under 70MB).

You can run IIS on the same system as well, but be careful — zangweb and IIS will both want port 80. Read this post for details.

Another installation of Perl on the same machine (i.e. Activestate) will definitely cause problems. You get Perl with zangweb (with quite a few modules), so you don't really need another installation anyway.

zangweb installs to C:\zangweb. This is similar to IIS, which installs to C:\Inetpub. Be sure your C: drive has the proper amount of space, and that there isn't another folder using this name.

Download and install

The current zangweb package is version 2006.09

Download the installation package (Please use the mirrors!):

• http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/zangweb/zangweb_setup.exe (HTTP mirror — dotsrc.org)
• ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/zangweb/zangweb_setup.exe (FTP mirror — dotsrc.org)
• http://www.arbingersys.com/dnlds/zangweb_setup.exe

Run the setup file, and you're done!

zangweb features

Here is what you get with zangweb:

• Apache version 2.2.3
• MySQL version 5.0.24-community-log for Win32 on ia32
• Perl version 5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
  Featured modules
  • CGI 3.15 - Web programming library
  • CGI::Ajax 0.697 - Perl-specific system for writing Asynchronous web applications
  • DBI 1.52 - Database connectivity (MySQL)
  • HTML::Parser 3.55 - Parse and extract info from HTML
  • DBD::ADO 2.95 - Use Microsoft ADO to connect to data
  • DBD::ODBC 1.13 - Use ODBC data sources
  • LWP 5.805 - Develop web clients
  • Net::FTP 2.75 - FTP client library
  • Net::POP3 2.28 - POP3 client library
  • Net::SMTP 2.29 - Send SMTP email
  • SOAP::Lite 0.69 - Lightweight interface to the Simple Object Access Protocol
  • Template 2.09 - The Template Toolkit
  • XML::Parser 2.34 - Parse XML documents
• OpenSSL/mod_ssl - Secure your site with SSL
• mod_perl version 2.0

As you can see, a thoroughly modern and feature-rich web development system!

 

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