Topic: Startup puzzle

[jhsachs]

I've just installed Apache 2.2.22, and I'm getting a puzzling error.

The environment is Windows 7 Enterprise. The computer was configured by my employer's IT department, and is thoroughly "securitized," but I don't see a likely connection between that and the problem.

When I start HTTPD with the unmodified httpd.conf, it is successful.

When I modify httpd.conf to use a document root on my data drive, I get an error box that says "The requested operation has failed!" But error.log is empty; so are all the other log files in the log directory.

The new document directory most definitely exists, but it's on a drive that is mapped onto a company server. Could that be the problem? No other application I've tried has problems using the drive.

[covener]

If you run Apache as a service, you can't use a drive letter. Those are associated with your interactive logon session. You need to use UNC paths everywhere, and the user that runs the service needs to be able to access the share (w/ their local password, or maybe otherwise setup for access w/o password).

[Jan-E]

In stead of using UNC paths, you could also try to mklink /D directory junctions from one drive to another. If IT securitization does not prohibit is...