I will try that -f switch and see what it says. I have tried reinstalling the service by hand and get nothing. Not an error, not a character of text on the screen, just a happy flashing cursor on a new line. The service doesn't get installed, and no errors are raised. -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel E [mailto:emmanuel.e@xxxxxxx] Sent: 18 July 2006 15:10 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2 chaos what about apache -f httpd.conf? that is telling apache which conf file to use does that work? then maybe you could reinstall the service using apache -k -f httpd.conf or something Oliver Marshall wrote: > What a day ! A clients web designer decided to make some changes to the > conf file on our windows 2003 based apache box. Nothing terrible there, > but when it didn't do what was wanted, and apache failed to load, they > decided to start pulling files from the apache folder. When that didn't > work, they decided to reinstall apache. Finally, after a few hours > poking, they decided to send a tacit email to me explaining that the > server isn't working. > > Now, having uninstalled apache, removed all the apache folders and their > files, removed all the reg entries from the registry, I have installed > v2. > > That's where things started getting really odd. Apache seemed to serve > up pages from the default site, ie the one in httpd.conf which is listed > at the start of the httpd.conf file, before the virtualhost entries. It > seemed to totally ignore any virtualhost entries in the httpd. Any > changes there were never actioned by apache, despite the APACHE -S > saying the syntax was correct. > > So, I tried 2.2. This had exactly the same issue. Nothing in the > virtualhost section was acted on. > > Stranger still, if I changed the default documentroot entry of the > httpd.conf file and restarted apache, it had no effect. It's like there > was another httpd.conf file in use somewhere but there wasn't any on the > server outside of the apache folder. > > Then things got weirder still. If I stopped the apache service itself > (using the service mmc snap-in in windows) it refused to start again. It > produced the standard popup explaining I should check the event log or > contact the manufacturer of the service. The event log didn't show any > apache based errors, and I cant see anything in any of the files in the > /log folder of apache. Rebooting the server failed to get the apache > service working. The only way to get the service up and working is to > totally reinstall apache again, which works, but I'm still left with the > non-working virtualhost entries and the seemingly unread httpd.conf > file. > > ARRGHH!!!!! > > Now, im no apache guru, but I have setup enough apache 1.3 and v2 boxes > running windows to know how to setup an apache install to support > several virtualhosts and all the gubbins that go with it. However, im at > a loss to explain what the h**l is happening now. > > Can anyone shed any light on these weird issues? Anyone know how I can > even find out more info about what apache is or isn't reading from the > httpd.conf file ? > > Olly > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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