Tom:
Something like that occurred to me, too, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I
use Metapad as a Notepad replacement, and when I checked default file format in
its configuration, it is set to "DOS text (CR+LF)", not either of the Unicode
options. I also tried saving it in Notepad with ANSI as you suggested, but that
made no difference.
What did make a difference was completely commenting out the changes I had made
in the log files section. At that point, it made no difference what editor I
used to save the file, it always worked.
That makes no sense! What the heck is going on here? At least my site is
running, but I didn't get to implement the logging exclusions and rotation
schedule that had been the point of the changes.
Mark
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Syntax error on line 1 of http.conf: invalid
command
\xff\xfe#
From: Tom Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Date: Sunday, September 09, 2007 07:58:43 AM
Mark A. Craig wrote:
I have a rather bizarre httpd.conf error with Apache 2.2 on Windows
2000; I attempted to make some rather simple edits to the logfile
portion of it, and now when I test, start,or restart the server I get
the following error displayed in the console (DOS) window:
Syntax error on line 1 of C:/Program Files/Apache Software
Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command '\xff\xfe#', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module
not included in the server configuration
What the heck is going on? Not only did I not edit the first line,
all it contains is the standard comment line that has been there all
along.
Mark Craig
It appears you may have used an editor which stores files in Unicode and
introduced a byte-order-mark:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark
You could try opening httpd.conf in Notepad and save it as ANSI to
remove this problem.
-tom-
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