Re: Syntax error on line 1 of http.conf: invalid command \xff\xfe#

"Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:52:29 -0700

I keep telling everyone, NO, I didn't!  The error was SOLELY caused by the 

presence of the piped Customlog directives using rotatelogs.exe.  When I comment 

those out, regardless what editor I use, the problem goes away.  I only began 

having this problem AFTER I first tried to add those directives, and it 

continues until after I comment them out.

Mark

-------- Original Message  --------

Subject: Re:  Syntax error on line 1 of http.conf: invalid command 

\xff\xfe#

From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 08:10:52 AM

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

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