Can't run apache on my laptop b/c of recent Microsoft Updates

[lfactress]

Help! I have 2 laptops - 1 running Windows XP Pro, and the other running Windows 2000. Both had Apache 1.3.3 up and running beautifully with PHP 4.1 until about Mid-April. Then I didn't try running it for about 4 weeks, until last Friday... at which point after taking a month off from programming, I tried going to my [localhost.com...] and both laptops return the standard "Page Cannot Be displayed."

I started and restarted APache webserver sucessfully on both, but I still got "Page Cannot Be displayed." This led me to check the Error and Access logs. On my XP machine, I had the following:

Access Log:

127.0.0.1 - - [16/May/2005:16:38:40 -0400] "HEAD /msdownload/update/v5/redir/wuredir.cab?0505162038 HTTP/1.1" 404 0
127.0.0.1 - - [16/May/2005:16:38:40 -0400] "GET /msdownload/update/v5/redir/wuredir.cab?0505162038 HTTP/1.1" 404 318
127.0.0.1 - - [16/May/2005:16:38:40 -0400] "HEAD /v5/redir/wuredir.cab?0505162038 HTTP/1.1" 404 0
127.0.0.1 - - [16/May/2005:16:38:40 -0400] "GET /v5/redir/wuredir.cab?0505162038 HTTP/1.1" 404 300

Error Log:

[Mon May 16 16:38:40 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/msdownload/update/v5/redir/wuredir.cab
[Mon May 16 16:38:40 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/v5/redir/wuredir.cab

The only file on my XP machine called wuredir.cab is located at:
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F...

I don't want to uninstall the Microsoft Updates, as I don't want to leave my laptops open for exploitation... however I NEED to use Apache!

Help!

Thanks so much...

"The L-Factress"

[bcolflesh]

[localhost...]

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[jdMorgan]

lfactress,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Two more possibilities:

First, make sure that SP2 didn't enable IIS server. If it did, IIS would compete for port 80. However, this should give you an error message that's pretty specific.

Second, see the Microsoft Knowledge base article KB884020 [support.microsoft.com], "Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect in Windows XP Service Pack 2".

Jim

[lfactress]

um... could I be MORE embarassed? Apparently 1 month off was 1 month too many.

I left off the .com and hello webpage! *sigh... Thank you for your help, I'm going to go hit my head with a very large hammer now!

Cheers!
"The L-Factress"