Posted by Peter Fox on 02/22/06 21:55

Following on from Stephen Poley's message. . .
>I have previously run PHP 4.3.1 successfully with Apache 2.0.43 on
>Windows XP SP1. I am now trying to install PHP and Apache (from the
>exact same install files) on a new Windows XP SP2 machine.
>
>I first installed Apache and it started up correctly. I then configured
>PHP the same way as before (to the best of my knowledge and belief) but
>every time I attempted to start Apache I got the unhelpful message "the
>requested operation has failed", with no entry in the error log.

Umm. Yes I've just overcome something very similar on NT. I'm not sure
what I did in the end but a reboot seemed to help shake off old file
associations or cache or something.

(Actually Upgrading PHP 5.0 to 5.1 - Memo to self : "Don't be tempted by
foolish whimsy to upgrade unless ABSOLUTELY essential")



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