here is my config
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###* DeveloperSide.NET *
###* http://www.devside.net *
###* admin@devside.net *
###* v1.14 *
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Listen 80
ServerRoot "/www/Apache2"
DocumentRoot “/www/webroot”
ServerName localhost:80
ServerAdmin admin@localhost
ServerSignature On
ServerTokens Full
DefaultType text/plain
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
UseCanonicalName Off
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog logs/error.log
LogLevel warn
PidFile logs/httpd.pid
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
ThreadsPerChild 250
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so
#LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
#LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so
#LoadModule auth_anon_module modules/mod_auth_anon.so
#LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
#LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
#LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
#LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
#LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
#LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
#LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
#LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
#LoadModule imap_module modules/mod_imap.so
#LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
#LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
#LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
#LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
#LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
#LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
#LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
#LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
#LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
#LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
#LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
#LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadFile "/www/perl/bin/perl58.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
PerlRequire “/www/Apache2/conf/extra.pl”
LoadFile "/www/php/php4ts.dll"
LoadModule php4_module /www/php/php4apache2.dll
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css
Header append Vary User-Agent
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
<Directory “/www/webroot”>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Alias /private "/www/private"
<Directory "/www/private">
<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>
Options Indexes
</IfModule>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Private Access"
AuthUserFile "/www/private/.htpasswd"
require valid-user
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/www/cgi-bin">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /phpMyAdmin “/www/phpMyAdmin”
<Directory “/www/phpMyAdmin”>
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
<Directory “/www/webroot/stats”>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" combined
CustomLog logs/access.log combined
DeflateFilterNote Input instream
DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)' deflate
CustomLog logs/deflate.log deflate
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
TypesConfig conf/mime.types
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .rar
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[012]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
ExtendedStatus On
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
SetHandler server-info
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
PerlModule Apache::Status
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler Apache::Status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Include conf/ssl.conf
Start – mod_perl Hello example, \www\perl\site\lib\Apache\Hello.pm
PerlModule Apache::Hello
SetHandler modperl
PerlResponseHandler Apache::Hello
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#
##### End -- mod_perl Hello example
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
DocumentRoot c:\www\webroot
ServerName ghostintheshell.ca
DocumentRoot c:\www\webroot\Shane_Scodane
ServerName davidwatson.no-ip.com
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Oh i recommend debian… you may feel out of place at first but debian is by far the easiest distribution to get used to. to install apache and mysql you would simply type “apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client apache”