Newbie desparately needs help...

Problems during install/uninstall

[jonkerr]

Hi,
I'm trying to develop some php scripts on my machine at home and started off by installing Apache and PHP. I followed all the instructions and when I tried to access [localhost...] I found I couldn't see any pages at all (I have since seen all the threads on this site regarding that problem!).

I at first thought that I may have made a mistake during installation so I deceded to uninstall and try again. BIG mistake!

After I uninstalled I found that the uninstaller had not completely removed the folders. When I tried to re install I got an error message saying it could not bind to 0.0.0.80 (port 80 I presume) and that the Apache service would not be installed. I can't completely remove the old installation folders as they are protected and have got into a right mess. How can I get to a point where I can re install Apache and get on with my development?

I'm running WinXP with a Speedtouch 510 router...

Thanks in advance!

[lemat]

probably the apache service is still running

1) close down the service -> ControlPanel -> ... -> Sevices
2) Uninstal apache
3) Manualy delete the remains
4) restart windows
5) instal apache
6) run the service

There is a few packages containing apache+php+mysql+a lot more - for example FoxServ.

[jonkerr]

Thanks lemat! I've now managed to get Apache un installed! I've re installed and come up against another problem (I am going to get this software working even if it kills me!)

The service seems to start ok but when I go to [localhost...] the browser hangs. When I looked at the error log there was loads of this:

[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2984
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [notice] Child 2984: Child process is running
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [notice] Child 2984: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [notice] Child 2984: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2984: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:56 2004] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2984: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:57 2004] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2984: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:57 2004] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2984: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.
[Sat Sep 18 18:34:57 2004] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2984: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!

[isitreal]

win xp service pack 2 blocks the loopback address, 127.0.0.1 by default, or so I was told. I don't know the solution to that particular problem, I don't use XP.

Make sure you don't have any firewall stuff running when you test this, turn off the native windows xp firewall, and anything else, then see if it works.

It's also not a bad idea to set up virtual hosts, that way you can run more than one site on your development server, to use virtual hosts you also have to modify your hosts file, that's in c:\winnnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Sometimes there is a temp host file with a slightly different name, but the file is called just plain hosts, no . or anything, it's just a text file, looks like this for setup to take you to your sites:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 site1 site2 site3

the last line is where you'd type in your site names, the shortcut names you use in the virtual hosts file.