Hi, I am trying to run apache as a service on a failover cluster (the OS for the nodes is 2008 server enterprise x64). When started from the services MMC there is no problem, however when run by bringing the service in the failover cluster management online it fails. In the event viewer apache churns out the usage statement, there is nothing in Apaches own log directory. I have tried ensuring the installation path is short with no spaces (I read another post, see below, and the conclusion seemed to be that this could be an issue) however this made no difference. I replaced the httpd.exe with a simple program that just wrote all the arguments to a file, the arguments were identical in both cases: C:\BT\Apache2.2\bin\httpd.exe -k runservice I turned off UAC which had no effect. I have also looked at the code to try and see anything obvious in that area but haven't spotted anything.. I'm assuming there's some difference in the access rights or environment or similar that is causing the issue. If there are any further thoughts on the cause of this or possible workarounds I'd be grateful, otherwise I guess I'll try and raise a bug.. Many Thanks Trevor (title of a previous mail thread about this issue "httpd service not starting on Windows 2008 (64bit) through Microsoft Failover Cluster") - I seem to have different results from the last poster in that I find the parameters passed to be the same for both methods of invoking httpd.exe --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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