I installed the full Cygwin 1.7 package on Windows 7. When I try to start Apache server following the linux style by running command
$ /usr/sbin/apachectl2 start
I got “Bad system call” error.
After some web search and trial and error, I finally got it work. Below are the steps that I’ve tried. Not sure whether all are necessary though.
Step 1: right click the Cygwin terminal and select “Run as adminstrator”
Step 2: create correct user and group info. Not sure whether this step is necessary.
$ mkpasswd.exe -l
$ mkgroup.exe -l
Step 3: configure server by running command
$ cygserver-config
Step 4: start cygserver
$ net start cygserver
Step 5: start apache
$ /usr/sbin/apachectl2 start