Re: Apache fails to start as service

Timothy Orme <torme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:27:00 -0500

Hello Dewey,

	Well I was able to narrow down my problem and managed to find an "acceptable" workaround.

	It seems that when you map a network drive it is invisible to services regardless of permissions. This kind of makes sense, as my loose understanding of mapped network drives is that they are mapped 

at the time the user logs in. Since a service doesn't really go through a typical login on windows, I'm guessing that it just never maps these drives and therefore, trying to access a drive like "X:" 

fails. I should probably reiterate that this could be a completely wrong explanation of it, and it's really just my "best guess" as to how things work.

	My solution then was to simply reference the folders that I needed through their network share names in http.conf . For instance if I was originally mapping \\serverA\Files to X: and referencing X: 

in the http.conf, I just replaced my X: reference with \\serverA\Files. This seems to work just fine, and in my case, is a perfectly reasonable solution to this problem. When I start up  httpd now, it 

works fine as a service in the same way as from the command line.

	I'm not sure if this fixes the issue that your having (you didn't mention if it was due to mapped network drives) but if it is, hope this helps, and if you need more info just let me know.

Thanks,
Tim Orme

Williams, Dewey wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Orme [mailto:torme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:43 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Apache fails to start as service

Hello,

	I'm running Apache 2.2.10 on Windows 2003 EE. I have a directory

aliased to a

mapped network drive. I have setup a user which has permissions to

access these

drives, and have specified that the
apache service should be run as that user (By changing the services

"Log on" account).

However, when I try and start this service, it fails. From the

services MMC I receive an

error message saying
that Windows couldn't start the service due to an error code 1. When I

try and start

the service via the command line (httpd -k start) it fails silently.

Whats strange is that

if I simply run the
command (httpd) Apache starts fine.

Thanks,
Tim

Tim,

I have had this problem for many versions of Apache (since 2.0) and it
has yet to be resolved.  I have found that Apache will run in a Command
Window, but not as a service.  Don't know why, have asked many Apache
gurus here and "in the cloud" with no resolution.

If you find a solution please pass it on.

Dewey Williams
UNC Charlotte

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