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**keineseele** · 07:15 PM

Hello.

I am sorry to be bothering you all with this, but I seem to have come across a small issue while installing my test server. I am running Windows Server 2003, with Apache 2.2, PHP 5, and MYSQL 5.1. While trying to configure all of this, I have found myself unable to restart Apache. I am given an error stating:

Code:

Syntax error on line 23 of C:/Server/Web/Apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory

My httpd-vhosts.conf file is as such:

Code:

# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at 
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
# —————————————–
#localhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot “C:/Server/Web/htdocs”
ServerName localhost
<Directory “C:/Server/Web/htdocs”>
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# —————————————–
#phpmyadmin.local
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot “C:/Server/Web/htdocs/Admin/phpMyAdmin-3.3.2-english”
ServerName phpmyadmin.local
<Directory “C:/Server/Web/htdocs/Admin/phpMyAdmin-3.3.2-english”>
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# —————————————–

I have also verified that the directory(copied and pasted here from Windows Explorer) C:\Server\Web\htdocs exists.

I am unsure, at this point, how this issue would be solved. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Nicolai Guarino.

**thewebhostingdi** · 05-10-2010, 12:17 AM

Kindly refer to below mentioned URL which might helps you to solve your issue:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archiv.../t-537581.html

**keineseele** · 05-10-2010, 01:01 AM

I have found that thread before. I may just be missing something, but I cannot find anything there which will help. I am running it off of Windows Server, which does not have SELinux(the problem in the thread you posted), and permissions should not be an issue. I have also tried moving the DocumentRoot to another folder(updating the conf files, of course, to no avail.

**chrishirst** · 05-10-2010, 07:17 AM

IIS and Apache CANNOT share port 80.

Change the "Listen port" for Apache to a different port in httpd.conf, 8080 is suggested. Or you can disable IIS.

**keineseele** · 05-10-2010, 08:42 AM

I have already disabled and removed IIS. I had done this before I installed Apache, and Apache's successful install page showed up in my browser before I installed PHP/MySQL and edited the conf files.

**chrishirst** · 05-10-2010, 09:08 AM

But does

DocumentRoot “C:/Server/Web/htdocs/Admin/phpMyAdmin-3.3.2-english”

exist?

that's the one that is throwing the error, as line 23 is the second closing </VirtualHost> statement

**keineseele** · 07:16 PM

Er, sorry. It seems I left some of the comments out. I will fix it immediately. But the error in the full file lands at DocumentRoot “C:/Server/Web/htdocs”. Here is a full listing of the directories.

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is DC4E-38D9

 Directory of C:\

05/09/2010  03:54 PM                 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
05/09/2010  04:38 PM    <DIR>          c7357518c46cf364b4f5ec3bfcfbd174
05/09/2010  03:54 PM                 0 CONFIG.SYS
05/09/2010  04:16 PM    <DIR>          Documents and Settings
05/09/2010  06:31 PM    <DIR>          FPSE_search
05/09/2010  06:20 PM    <DIR>          Inetpub
05/09/2010  07:39 PM    <DIR>          Program Files
05/09/2010  06:36 PM    <DIR>          Server
05/09/2010  07:17 PM    <DIR>          usr
05/10/2010  01:40 PM    <DIR>          WINDOWS
05/09/2010  04:05 PM    <DIR>          wmpub
               2 File(s)              0 bytes
               9 Dir(s)  35,748,552,704 bytes free

C:\>dir Server\Web\
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is DC4E-38D9

 Directory of C:\Server\Web

05/09/2010  10:03 PM    <DIR>          .
05/09/2010  10:03 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/09/2010  06:39 PM    <DIR>          Apache
05/10/2010  05:40 AM    <DIR>          htdocs
05/09/2010  07:17 PM    <DIR>          PHP
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  35,748,552,704 bytes free

C:\>dir Server\Web\htdocs
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is DC4E-38D9

 Directory of C:\Server\Web\htdocs

05/10/2010  05:40 AM    <DIR>          .
05/10/2010  05:40 AM    <DIR>          ..
05/09/2010  07:55 PM    <DIR>          Admin
05/10/2010  05:41 AM                28 index.php
               1 File(s)             28 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  35,748,552,704 bytes free

C:\>

Edit: Fixed vhosts script in first post to show full file