On 13/01/2011 17:03, Bob Wilson wrote:
On 13/01/2011 13:27, Simone Caruso wrote:On 13/01/2011 13:41, Bob Wilson wrote:Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache? I was told that to make localhost point to a alternative directory I should change both the 'Documentroot' AND 'Directory' paths The original info in httpd.conf works OK DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs" <Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"> I have changed it to: DocumentRoot "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs" <Directory "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs"> Which doesn't work with error message 'The requested operation has failed!' I'm sure that I didn't have this problem with XP but I'm now using Windows 7 ThanksI think it's a permission problem, are u running apache as administrator?I'm logged on as an administrator, is that the same thing? Bob
Services on windows run as 'system' (i remember, i'm not M$ expert), u can see this by editing the service options from control panel
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