You edited it in utf-8. I hacked this long ago to ignore the leading bytes but it looks like you might have corrupted them (it's supposed to be a three byte sequence, and somehow you'd truncated it to two bytes?) 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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