Apache help

[Manual]

I have some basic experience with apache. I have installed it once on a win 98 machine and the default installation sworked fine. I hav recently tried to install version 2.0.46 on a winxp home and a win 98 machine and in both instances it refuses to work. The win 98 machine I am not concerned about. On the winxp machine I installed Apache to run in a console window. When I start the server the console window opens with a flashing cursor. Thats it, no message that the server is running or anything. The error log is not of much help as it only states the following ...

[Thu Jun 19 16:33:31 2003] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2196
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Child process is running
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:42 2003] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:42 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:43 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.


.... any suggestions anybody?

[Mordecai]

Try running it from a DOS prompt, or run it as a service and see what happens. If you use a service, you can restart from a DOS prompt by typing "NET STOP Apache" followed by "NET START Apache".

[Manual]

Thanks for the reply ....
... the problem has changed somewhat, I have installed Apache v1.3.27 and it behaves like a good puppy and does what it is told to do. The question now, is it possible to upgrade to any v2.0.x or do I have to re-install. So far I am happy with 1.3.27 and would not need any other version. I am however one of those types that would like to have the latest releases of any software installed.

[Mordecai]

You could try something that installs all of the big three (PHP, Apache, MySQL), that might fair a little better. I've never installed Apache 2, 1.3.x is great.

[Manual]

Alright, I see a light on the horizon .... Ok I agree Apache 1.3 does a good job, and seeing that it is for in-house development only, more than sufficient.
Now the next bit, have you got any idea where to get an installer that installs all 3 of them. So far I have not come across anything that does that .... Ignorance is bliss :-)

[Mordecai]

Look for PHPTriad (actually, if memory serves me correctly, I think there's a post about it a couple down from this one, depending on your settings). It does the job and does it well.

Okay, I was right, but it doesn't have a link.. phooey. I'm sure you can find it on Google... the URL had something with "geek" in it, as if that's saying much...

[Manual]

Alrighty then ... I did a search and also found something called FoxServ. I will try and get them both and see what is what. Install one at work one at home and give them a twirl ... If anybody is interested I will post some comments here.

Thanx for the help on my path of enlightenment ....:D