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JeffSacto
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December 19, 2013
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Any alternative webserver to WAMP that works with Adobe Captivate?

  • December 19, 2013
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Hi there,

We are using Adobe Captivate version 5.5 with an internal website using WAMP 2.1.  Recently our ISO found that WAMP's php/apache version is outdated, and require a upgrade, but I checked that even the most recent version of WAMP's version 2.2, its php/apache version is still below our ISO requirement of 5.3.15.  I did not find any discussion in Adobe Captivate talking about an alternative webserver to WAMP, is there another option exist?  If so, what are the steps to make it work with Adobe Captivate?  Thank you...

Jeff

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    www_cpguru_com
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    December 19, 2013

    What exactly is it that you need to do? Captivate doesn't have any requirements at all to the "web-server" the content runs from. It can run from an straight up Apache Server, Microsoft IIS, NGINX or just about anything that can properly serve an HTML file to the user. There are some specifics like MIME types etc. if you are deploying FLV and F4V videos, but I have never had any problems with this.

    If you want to use the most up-to-date Apache and PHP versions the best options is to create a LAMP box yourself and use this as a server.

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    JeffSactoAuthor
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    December 19, 2013

    Thanks for the response, now I understand that I can set it up with any of those servers.  I am thinking that we are going to use IIS server, what would be the specific setup instruction?  Or is it the same as WAMP?

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    www_cpguru_com
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    December 21, 2013

    I have only set up IIS servers on Microsoft Server operating systems, but there is apparently a way to do it in Windows 7 (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-install-iis-on-windows-vista/ ). However I have never tried this so I don't know if there are any limitations with IIS running on a desktop operating system as opposed to a server operating system.

    If you have an existing server running Microsoft Server 2003 - 2012 then you can simply enable the IIS on these and follow the relatively easy wizard to get it up an running.

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