Thanks for the suggestions Andre, but it's still a no-go. It loaded 20 modules, the last of which was setenvif_module, but then returned a system prompt. No errors or anything. I attempted to view the default Apache page (to see if the service was up), as well as looked in the service viewer, and nothing. And I am a local admin on my machine, so that shouldn't have effected the netstat output. Any other suggestions? Marc André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> To 06/02/2008 06:15 users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PM cc Subject Please respond to Re: "The <apache users@xxxxxxxxxxx version> service on Local Computer e.org started and stopped" marc.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Check the Application Event Log. > > No entries are made in the application log when I attempt to start the > service. > > Marc Scott > Hi. I am running Apache2 on several Windows XP SP2 stations, usually as a service, under various Windows national versions, and have no problem. Maybe try to run it from the command-line ? cd to the top Apache directory, and enter : bin\httpd -e debug When i do that, it starts in the command window, not as a service, display a few messages about what it's loading (see below), then it stops displaying messages and just works (as a webserver I mean). I don't get startup errors of course, but maybe you'll see something in the window telling you why it doesn't start properly. End with CTRL-C. Maybe something else : under Unix, to be able to open a listening port below 1024, one needs root privileges. Possibly under Windows, one needs Administrator or LocalSystem privileges. When opening your command window, better be logged in as a local administrator. André Sample output : C:\Apache2>bin\httpd -e debug [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module actions_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module alias_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module asis_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module auth_basic_modul e [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module auth_digest_modu le [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authn_default_mo dule [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authn_file_modul e [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_default_mo dule [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_groupfile_ module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_host_modul e [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_user_modul e [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module autoindex_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module cgi_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dav_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dav_fs_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dir_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module env_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module imagemap_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module include_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module isapi_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module log_config_modul e [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module mime_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module negotiation_modu le [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module rewrite_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module setenvif_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module userdir_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module jk_module [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(328): loaded file C:/Perl/bin/perl58 ..dll [Tue Jun 03 00:02:34 2008] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module perl_module (now running, CTRL-C stops it) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. 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