[mapserver-users] Windows Installation

[Alex Mandel]

On 05/14/2014 12:49 PM, trailway wrote:
> Jerome, thanks for the comment "you should use the 32 bit installer as the
> packages are more up to date on this version".
> 
> There are different set of packages available when you run the 32 bit
> installer versus the 64 bit installer.  You can see the differences here:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86_64/release/
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86/release/
> 
> In particular, Apache related packages only show up in the 32 bit installer.
> 
> That seems very confusing to me.  My goal is to run this on a 64 bit server
> machine, e.g. Windows Server 2012, running in Amazon.  
> 
> Which installer should I use?
> 
> If using OSGeo4W is not best practices then I'd appreciate that feedback.
> 

It's just because no one has gotten around to supplying the 64bit
windows Apache binaries. Apache.org does not appear to make them.

You can probably combine this with osgeo4w
https://www.apachelounge.com/download/win64/

Enjoy,
Alex