Topic: Problems installing Apache on vista!

[jim28100]

OMG… I’m losing the will to live!

Hi, I am trying to install Apache on a new Vista machine.

After Googling various posts I installed Apache by using following tutorial: www.thesitewizard.com/apache/install-apache-on-vista.shtml As instructed I made sure UAC was turned off and I ran the Command Prompt as Administrator. I managed to get Apache to work the first time but couldn’t get PHP to talk to it. After trying various things, Apache stopped working and wouldn’t restart via the Apache Services panel. I tried everything, even tried to reverse the configs to where it had worked but no dice. So in frustration I turned off apache, deleted all the old files, via the control panel and removed the directories from within ‘Program Files (x86)’ and tried again. Still no luck. I’ve since tried about a dozen times, using the above tutorial and the one below but still get the same result. After each de-install/re-install Apache looks like it’s working but http//localhost/ comes back with ‘can’t find requested page’. I've also tried the 'VAMP' tutorial here too with the same result?

The only odd thing I have run across is that the first tutorial said to create a symbolic link for both the ‘conf’ and ‘htdocs’. When doing a new install I can create a symbolic link for ‘conf’ but not ‘htdocs’ as it says that it already exists. Yet I can’t physically see (or DIR) it, and trying to remove it using ‘rd htdocs’ just says it doesn’t exist?

I’m at my wits end. Can anyone offer a solution – apart from sticking my head in the gas oven?
Any answers will be much appreciated but be aware that replies will need to be written as ‘idiot’s guides’.

Ps - this is the other tutorial I tried: www.sebastiansulinski.co.uk/web_design_tutorials/web_server/install_apache/install_apache.php?id=apache

Jim

(mother said that there would be days like this!)

[glsmith]

1. del "C:\Path\To\symbolic link name.lnk"
e.g C:\>del "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Internet Exploder.lnk"

If Program Files on Vista is so protected, why did the Author still have you install there. Put it C:\Apache2 and save many headaches brought on by the default install folder.

Make sure in c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (no file extension) there is this line in the file;

127.0.0.1 localhost