> manually, but it'll run in a MS-DOS window, so you can see
> any error messages it generates. Particularly helpful for
> debugging invalid httpd.conf files. It haven't tried
> particularly hard, but I've yet to find a way to view
> configuration errors when you're trying to start it as a
> service. You have to go manually fire it up, fix your
> errors, turn it off, and then start the service.
>
> Since about the only time you'll ever be start/stopping is
> when you've made configuation changes, it's hardly a burden
> to do it manually.
It's true that it's easier to debug Apache configuration when starting it as
an application, but that doesn't mean you can't run it as a service the rest
of the time. Installing the Apache service doesn't preclude you from running
Apache as an application as long as the service isn't running.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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