❓How to run godot4 html project locally on Windows?

• got to https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

  

  select site to download, in my case it was https://www.apachelounge.com/download/

  

• Unzip and put Apache24 to your suitable folder.

• Now we need to modify config file. Got to your new Apache24 folder and go to conf/httpd.conf

  • after this Define SRVROOT you should paste the path to your new Apache24 folder. Define SRVROOT "C:/Users/xxxx/Desktop/Apache24"

  • setup your favorite port here http server (you will connect to it later) Listen 8080, in my case it is 8080

  • enable loading headers-module by uncommenting LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

  • uncomment and modify #ServerName www.example.com:80 to ServerName 127.0.0.1:8080 with chosen port. You should specify 127.0.0.1 as localhost.

  • Inside <Directory "${SRVROOT}/htdocs"> add Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "localhost" (Very important 🙂)

  • At any place (for instance at the end) add this block

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy "require-corp"
    Header set Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy "same-origin"
    </IfModule>
    

    • See below what you should get as a result.

Updating config file is done.

• Now we have to install and start the server

• [!] All the commands should be executed with Admin Rights

• first, run cmd as admin,

  Apache24/bin > httpd.exe -k install and you will see windows popup window, you should allow the acces. Don't close cmd window.

  

• Now we need to start the server by executing in cmd httpd.exe -k start

• We need to check if all this works, click this link http://localhost:8080 or enter localhost:8080 in your browser. You should see this:

  

• We have created the server now, we need to put our game there. Go to your Apache/htdocs folder, then create folder game1 (name of your game, up to you) and put our web files, like on the image below. Main .html file should be named index.html !Very important!

  

• Now if we will go to http://localhost:8080/game1 (after "/" in should be name of the folder that we have created in previous step) your game will load :)

• You can also add second game following the same steps. Create folder, put web file (very important index.html)

• Now we want to store links to our main server page. Go to your Apache/htdocs and create index.html, paste code below and to add more links you need to just replace xxxx on your link.

<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/game1">http://localhost:8080/game1</a></p>

<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/game2">http://localhost:8080/game2</a></p>

<p><a href="xxxx">xxxx</a></p>

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Also useful commands:

• http.exe -V
• http.exe -k restart
• http.exe -k stop
• http.exe -k start
• http.exe -k install
• http.exe -k deinstall

For more information:

• https://godotforums.org/d/32745-how-do-i-configure-apache-web-server-to-serve-godot-4-apps
• https://techkblog.com/enable-sharedarraybuffer-coop-coep/
• https://ubiq.co/tech-blog/enable-cors-apache-web-server/
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-servlets/9780596516680/ch01s18.html