I have moved from a working Apache 2.x install on a Win98 machine to a
clean install Windows XP where Apache 2.x installs fine but refuses to
run as a service, or anything at all.

The error reporting I keep on getting is:

HTTPD: Syntax error on line 134 of i:/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot
load i:/Apache2/modules/mod_access.so into server: The specified
module could not be found.

I have looked and looked and have found no solution I haven't tried to
get Apache to start, but it does not. Even deleting and re-installing
Apache does not solve the problem.

Anyone have a clue on how to get Apache to run?

Thanks
Darius

[ Darius ]

> I have moved from a working Apache 2.x install on a Win98 machine to a
> clean install Windows XP where Apache 2.x installs fine but refuses to
> run as a service, or anything at all.
>
> The error reporting I keep on getting is:
>
> HTTPD: Syntax error on line 134 of i:/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
> Cannot load i:/Apache2/modules/mod_access.so into server: The
> specified module could not be found.

I'm not really good with Windows, but shouldn't the loaded modules be
named .dll instead of .so (unix/linux).

Try checking your apache modules-directory (i:/Apache2/modules ?) for
a "mod_access.dll", and if it exists update your httpd.conf to use the
correct modulename.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:10:46 +0200, Kenneth Svee scribed:

> I'm not really good with Windows, but shouldn't the loaded modules be
> named .dll instead of .so (unix/linux).
>
> Try checking your apache modules-directory (i:/Apache2/modules ?) for
> a "mod_access.dll", and if it exists update your httpd.conf to use the
> correct modulename.

Thanks :-).

Shortly after you posted it was a pointer to find from much much
googling, someone with a similar problem on their Linux setup. Some of
the modules of old have been reworked and renamed. So the old modules
did not come with the Apache install, and I had to edit httpd.conf for
the modules new names.

Apache now work fine.