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Apache HTTP Server version 2.2.15 was released recently. It includes a number of important security and bug fixes. A changelog with further details can be found here. Thanks to Scott for notifying me about this new version.

Below you will find the 32 bit and 64 bit windows installers. Like the previous releases, the binaries have been compiled with Visual C++ 2008 (VC9). The installers and binaries are digitally signed and the signatures should appear valid as long as your Windows is up to date.

apache_2.2.15-x64-openssl-0.9.8m.msi

CRC32: C7339B42

MD5: B471C2DE3F9F79CB6AD2A60D188054CB

SHA1: A00486B87F85DF2C155598F2202223009AC8E3F1

apache_2.2.15-x64-no-ssl.msi

CRC32: 24406DA6

MD5: 4BFB3105F7F720E23981784D341B13AB

SHA1: 24E9FCC1EC4E97EECDD3E70F4D2C14D5433A657B

apache_2.2.15-x86-no-ssl.msi

CRC32: A41C5A8A

MD5: 44A2C275DA428AB64BB2048A74BA5DDA

SHA1: FE1AF42748A5592A35C77757799FAC0A941A1307

apache_2.2.15-x86-openssl-0.9.8m.msi

CRC32: DBE16130

MD5: B9ED4DD6D2B8B70843D3E107DE420870

SHA1: 34A564792ECCB0451914515F39F85B6AC696CEF4

The 32 bit binaries have been tested with Windows XP and the 64 bit binaries have been tested with Windows 7.

ModSecurity 2.5.11 was released on November 6, 2009. And so, here is the 64 bit binary for Windows. It also includes latest version of libxml2 (version 2.7.6).

For installation instructions, refer to the ‘install.txt’ file in the zip archive.

Download:

modsecurity-apache_2.5.11-x64.zip

CRC32: 231399B8

MD5: 6145769A5AB033AE97A7C2E7603A2F57

SHA1: D84F88289FAC06A77ABFDEA4322C85A277A60963

In my previous post I mentioned that I would create installers for any future versions of the Apache HTTP Server. And so, here I am providing 32 bit and 64 bit windows binaries for the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14. The latest version as of this writing. It was released 6 days ago, but I only found out about it today.

Anyway, as before, I have compiled these binaries using Vistual C++ 2008 (VC9) and I have provided “no-ssl” installers like Apache.org.

1. apache_2.2.14-x64-no-ssl.msi

   CRC32: C5AE850F

   MD5: 87BDA86CC2B974FA833EC706FBC9EF6E

   SHA1: 9CD57B58E72C7B0560E4F39C9EC41657123B2E4B

2. apache_2.2.14-x64-openssl-0.9.8k.msi

   CRC32: 17E37DB1

   MD5: 1304552D0F8FE7DDEFBBA39EC707EBB6

   SHA1: D6949866785B4F5FE5E08FD8A6594FF4B49417E4

3. apache_2.2.14-x86-no-ssl.msi

   CRC32: C429FA99

   MD5: 66AF18A243CFBB570465AD54707C79A2

   SHA1: 45AF80ECF97975A87AE8069BC93EF05C9F868D0C

4. apache_2.2.14-x86-openssl-0.9.8k.msi

   CRC32: 06C362BC

   MD5: 9BB4501E47D6B67D2AA60437BA74ED08

   SHA1: 9A87399FF6152B08A236FD820426BF7FED218AF9

I have tested the 64 bit binaries with Windows 7 and 32 bit binaries with Windows XP.

If a new version of Apache is released and you see that I haven’t posted installers for it yet, please post a comment and let me know.

Update: ModSecurity 2.5.11 is now available.

Now that I am using 64 bit version of the Apache HTTP Server, I also have to use 64 bit version of ModSecurity. I couldn’t find a 64 bit binary of the latest version (2.5.9 at the time of this writing), so I decided to compile it myself.

Anyway, I am posting this binary here for anyone else who needs it. I am currently using it with Apache 2.2.13 in Windows 7. It was compiled with Visual C++ 2008 (VC9), with libxml2-2.7.3 and lua-5.1.4.

Download:

mod_security-2.5.9-win64-x64.zip

CRC32: A5642466

MD5: E86DA5091B639CD5E8CEB1422D7101C1

SHA1: 53D09F4E2F52ABE3D21C8BBBE6FC6FC66B545BCB

Update: Installers for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 can be found here.

I haven’t posted anything in my blog for quite some time. It’s been more than half a year actually. Anyway, it’s about time for me to post something new. I will start by posting MSI installers for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.13.

Why did I decide to create these installers?

Well, now that Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, I have started using Windows 7 64 bit. I was using 32 bit version of Windows 7 RC earlier and before that it was 32 bit Windows Vista. I had Apache, MySQL and PHP installed on my previous Windows installations, and now that I was using a 64 bit operating system, I wanted to install 64 bit versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP. MySQL.com has already been providing 64 bit binaries for Windows and I also found 64 bit binaries for PHP 5.3 here (although they aren’t meant for production use). But there is still no 64 bit version of Apache available from the official site. I did find unofficial 64 bit binaries at http://www.blackdot.be/?inc=apache/binaries, but in a zip file; without an installer.

So I decided to compile Apache myself and also create an installer for the compiled binaries. An installer makes it easier to install the software at any location of your choice, and also allows you to install only the components that you need.

It took me a while to set up the build environment on my new installation of Windows (Visual Studio 2008, Windows SDK 6.1, etc). While I was compiling Apache, I remembered that the official 32 bit binaries are compiled using VC6 and since I already had the build environment set up, I decided to compile 32 bit binaries too. These binaries that have been compiled with Visual C++ 2008 (VC9) should have “improvements in performance and stability” compared to the official Apache.org binaries.

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Sometimes in Windows Vista, Games Explorer may take too long to load. This can happen when your Windows Experience Index needs to be updated. This in turn can happen if you added some new hardware to your PC or because you may have reinstalled or updated some of your hardware drivers.

This has happened to me many times. Everytime I install a new version of nvidia’s graphics driver, Games Explorer starts taking a lot of time to load. And I find that the Windows Experience Index score turns grey, which means it needs to be updated since windows ‘detected’ new hardware

Today, again when I tried opening Games Explorer, it took a long time to load. And I noticed that the Experience Index was again grey. So I clicked on the Update my score link on the ‘Perfomance Information and Tools’ window, to refresh my Windows Experience Index, and after that Games Explorer started behaving normally again.

So, if you are having the same problem with Games Explorer, try refreshing your Windows Experience Index.