Re: Apache fails to start as service

André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:48:11 +0100

Hi.

You may want to verify that Apache's logfiles are actually writeable by 

the user under which Apache runs (or should run) as a service.

If you have run Apache before from the command-line as Administrator, it 

may have created logfiles unwriteable by anyone else.

This would prevent Apache from writing the reason of the start failure 

to the logfile.

Alternatively, log off the system, login again as this Apache user, and 

then try to run it in a command window.

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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