William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
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> There should be such a shortcut installed in your Start menu under Apache.
>
>
William,
I tried this again, after restarting, and it DID work. That was the
problem. Thanks very much for you help!!
Jonah
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
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>> rogram Fiels\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2
>>
>
> There should be such a shortcut installed in your Start menu under Apache.
>
Ok, I tried opening the Apache shortcut in the Start Menu -- still no luck.
>
> On that subject, to the original poster, a
Steve Swift wrote:
> You said that you were double-clicking the httpd.exe
> That would make the current directory:
> C:\Program Fiels\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2\bin
>
> so apache would go looking for a conf subdirectory of \bin and not
> find it.
>
> You will have to contsruct a shortcu
> These are the two important lines. Apache was compiled to expect the
> config to be at /apache/conf/httpd.conf. Is it?
>
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
>
Owen,
What is the initial "/" relative to? Again, for clarity, I will give
Steve Swift wrote:
> Well, before you start playing with your shortcut, is there a "conf"
> subdirectory below the working directory specified in your shortcut,
> and does that conf subdirectory contain your configuration file (which
> had better be named " httpd.conf" !)
>
Up until this point I
> Sounds to me like Apache can't find the httpd.conf file for some
reason... there should be a command switch to force it to look at a specific
place:
>
> httpd -V
>
> should tell you what config that it has been compiled to look for - make sure
it's in the right place or,
>
> httpd -f "path:/
> It sure sounds like you are doing the right things. Try this - once the
> httpd window is closed, look in your Task Manager (rt-click the start bar)
> and see that there are no 'apache' or 'httpd' processes running. If there
> are, kill them and let us know - terminating the httpd you 'see' in
I've installed Apache 2.2 as a manual server (ie, I have to open the
httpd.exe command window to use it) on Win XP Pro. The installation
works fine when I visit:
http://localhost:8080
However, I am now trying to change my htdocs root, because I keep all my
data one the E:\ partition of my HD.
