Yeh, if you put a problematic line in the config files, the server won't restart until you fix it, and on windows, due to the stupid (imho) GUIs, etc. it doesn't show you the error message until you open a dos prompt, learn a foreign language, and do a double backflip whilst whistling the "star spangled banner"
(yes, that is a reference to H2G2) (no, don't try it - I was joking) On 7/5/05, Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Ron Smith wrote: > > > My OS stats are: > > > > Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) PHP/4.3.10 mod_perl/1.99_18 Perl/v5.8.6 Server > > at localhost Port 80 > > > > This is running on "Win XP Pro". When I try to create a user-defined > > ENV variable in 'httpd.conf', I'm unable to do a re-start of Apache. > > The server just won't come back up untill I've removed the offending > > lines. Does anyone know of a workaround? > > Please demonstrate how you're trying to declare this variable. > > Please explain how you're trying to restart Apache. (I'm a Unix/Mac guy, > so I'm used to using the apachectl command line tool; I've seen several > ways to get the same result on Windows, but I can't be more helpful > without a clearer idea of what tools you're using.) > > Isn't the "right" way to define environment variables on Windows to go > into My Computer -> Properties -> Environment [?] -> Variables ? I > forget how to get to it, but I thought you had to go through the System > dialog window and find the Environment Variables button in there that, > in turn, lets you specify per-user or system-wide environment variables. > (Alternately, you should be able to use the `set` command in from within > cmd.exe, but I'm not clear if variables set that way are persistent > across reboots or have meaning outside of that particular shell.) > > In any case, setting environment variables in httpd.conf isn't typically > how things are done with Unix versions of Apache. What variable are you > trying to set ? Have you tried setting it in any other ways ? > > > > -- > Chris Devers > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- Dave All us base are belong to you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
