DevShed.com has this new article posted today for all of the Windows XP users out there wanting o install everyone's favorite web server, Apache, on their local machine.

Apache 2 represents quite a change from previous versions. If you have set up a previous version of Apache on a Windows XP PC, you will be interested in setting up the new version. Dan Wellman shows how to set up and configure Apache 2 on a Windows XP PC to give you a development environment that will allow you to test your PHP and other dynamic web technologies before taking them live.

Without all of the compilation process that *nix users go through, a Windows installation seems like a breeze. They even toss in how to get PHP and MySQL working right along side it. Of course, you also trade off stability and flexibility when you're on a Windows platform, but that's a talk for a different time...