The following reply was made to PR os-windows/2684; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steven 'GoofY' de Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: os-windows/2684: Server failes to start,witherror".\os\win32 Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Your problem is that you have to replace the @@ServerRoot@@ with the actual directory you are using. The installer does that automatically when it creates the *.conf files. On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I received this error (running from the DOS 7 command line > (Win95 on a Pentium)): > > == con: ================================ > F:\ApacheGroup\Apache>F:\ApacheGroup\Apache\Apache.exe -d F:\APACHE~1\APACHE > [Thu Jul 30 23:52:54 1998] file .\os\win32\util_win32.c, line 66, assertion > "s>= szFile && "this is a known bug"" failed > > F:\ApacheGroup\Apache>_ > == /con: =============================== > > I've just installed the binary win32 files (1.3.1), did just a bit > of editing in the conf/*.conf files (made a copy from the .tmp/ > *.conf-dist-win files), and made a sample index.html file in > the right directory. But running the shortlink created by the > install program gave me only a quickly-disappearing DOS-window. > Luckily for me, I know how to write a simple batch file, where > I could easily add a PAUSE statement ;) I then saw the above > message. > Looking at <http://bugs.apache.org> I saw you had solved > the problem (PR number 2684). Jippy! Or is it? > > I searched all my files for this kind of solution, but to no avail. > I then took the liberty to #comment all commands from the three > conf/*.conf files until the error disappeared, thus pinpointing > the cause to access.conf (after uncommenting the others back)! > I have three entries there, two Directory directives and one > Location directive: > > == access.conf ========================= > <Directory "@@ServerRoot@@/htdocs"> [...]
