Hello,

 

I have been looking at running Pound on windows. I can't seem to find much
written on how to achieve this. This is a request for any pointer to
information on how to install pound on windows. Anyone? :-)

 

Also, is there some more tutorial-like form of documentation of for the
configuration file format? All I have found on Pound so far is on
http://www.apsis.ch/pound/index_html.
I hope that there is more information
lurking somewhere? Please? :-)

 

Cheers,

/Erik

Hi Erik,
[...]

I run Pound 2.1.7 on Windows 2003 in production since last December and
its been working without problems. These were my installation steps:

1. Installed Cygwin on my PC: http://www.cygwin.com/. Installed these
packages: coreutils, cygutils, findutils, gcc-core, gcc-g++, m4,
openssl, openssl-devel, rebase, tar, w32api. Probably not all are
needed.

2. Download, configure and make Pound at the Cygwin prompt:
   ./configure --without-ssl --disable-log --disable-dynscale
I do not need HTTPS support or dynamic scaling support. Also, I do not
want Pound log events showing in the Event Viewer; the easy way to avoid
this is to disable logging and handle it through Cygwin, as seen below
at point 5.

3. Copy these files to your server (the first four are part of your
Cygwin installation), for instance, to the C:\Apps\Pound directory:
   cygssl-0.9.8.dll (can't remember why I'm copying this)
   cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll (can't remember why I'm copying this)
   cygrunsrv.exe
   cygwin1.dll
   pound.exe

4. Create your pound.cfg file. Use Daemon 0 in preparation for the
following service installation.

5. Make a Windows service to run Pound and log to a file. Use the Cygwin
cygrunsrv command for this:
   cygrunsrv --install Pound --path C:\Apps\Pound\pound.exe --args "-f
C:\Apps\Pound\pound.cfg" --stdout C:\Apps\Pound\pound.log --stderr
C:\Apps\Pound\pound.log

Regards,

 Curro
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 Francisco Javier "Curro" Alcala-Soler

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