Re: Locked Apache configuration file

Marc Buyens <marc.buyens@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:52:26 +0100

Hello. Many thanks for this. I am new to W7 and wasn't aware of this. 

This is clearly one more Bill Gates quirk. What's the use of assigning 

administrator rights to users if they are not used? Anyway, you solved 

my problem. Explicitly asking to run as administrator allows me to 

change the file. It is a bit like confirming that I am still alive 

before editing the file. Some form of technology progress, I assume, but 

not a progress of human logic...

On 20/03/2010 17:22, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:

On 3/20/2010 9:48 AM, Eric Covener wrote:

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Marc Buyens<marc.buyens@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it does not solve the mystery. I
installed the tool and used the search option to find references to the
file, but without result. I am not an expert in these things, but I tried
finding references to the file or its folder, etc. in various ways, but it
does not return any results.
Another thing that I observed is that I can rename the file, but if I do so,
the file is immediately recreated.

What made you think it was "locked" in the first place?  There's a
Vista/Win7 FAQ that lets users edit administrator-owned files by
silently redirecting them as soon as you make changes, but Apache sees
the original.

Note it is more insidious than that.

Even the administrator is editing files as 'just a user' in the normal Windows 7
or Vista UAC environment.  You actually have to create yourself a real admin
session to bring up these files in notepad or what have you.

Either set your notepad shortcut to 'run as user administrator' or you can just
launch an admin cmd.exe prompt (which isn't what happens when you run cmd.exe)
by either tagging the shortcut to run-as-user, or by invoking

runas /user:administrator "cmd.exe /k"

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