Hi,

I am having a similar error.

For some time I have been successfully running Apache as installed by 'xampp'.

A couple of months ago, I purchased PhpEd and have been very happy with it. However, since I was now using parts from two different 'systems' I wanted to install and use 'techplatform'.

I uninstalled the apache service installed by the xammp installation process.

I quit skype and turned off it starting with windows.

I made sure that port 443 was free and then I installed techplatform, selecting the 'start as a service' option.

on reboot i get the error:

Failed to start Apache
"C:\Program Files\nusphere\TechPlat\bin\apache.exe"

System error: Access is denied.


I have checked and this file does exist.

Any ideas?

(of course, the apache version installed by xampp no longer works now)

please open Start->Run->Cmd
then enter
"C:\Program Files\nusphere\TechPlat\bin\apache.exe"
and check message returned.
BTW, by default it installs apache into C:\Program Files\nusphere\TechPlat\Apache\bin\
not into C:\Program Files\nusphere\TechPlat\bin\

Dimitri,

I missed typed the path. Apache is installed in the default directory, which you would see if you looked at the attached image.

In a cmd console, I cd'd to the apache\bin directory and then ran apache.exe.

It complained of port 8443 being occupied. I checked on this and I have a HP JetDirect TCP/IP printer device on this port. Image attached.

So apparently, I have Skype on 443 (which I killed) and my JetDirect on this other port.

Is there a way to change the default Appache ports? Does it make sense to do this?

Thanks
Phil

as far as I see there are two distinct problems:
port TCP/8443 is in use and log files are not available.

For the first problem you can just re-run setup and disable web dav or uncheck ssl option if you want to or specify another port value.
Alternatively you may adjust settings in setup.ini directly and run php.exe with "setup.php" in command line to have it processed the settings and generate new apache conf files.

Regarding logs, you need to make sure that corresponding directory is created and user account under which you start Apache has write permission to it.

Dimitri,

I figured out to reassign the JetDirect port to 9443.

Having done that, Apache came up and ran.


However, with TechPlat installed and running, I realized that it uses php4. Unfortunately my app is written to use php5.

Can I install php5 over techplat or do you have a version which has php5? or how do I get around this?

Thanks

I assume you have php5 installed as part of NuSphere PhpED in C:\Program Files\NuSphere\PhpED\php5.

Open C:\Program Files\NuSphere\TechPlat\apache\conf\httpd.conf in editor and proceed with steps below:
1) locate line below
and comment it out by placing # in the first position

2) locate line below
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4
and replace .php4 with .php5 extension
and add two lines just below it:



3) restart Apache

Sure its free But doesnt work for us. We thought we would help by reporting the problem.

Hi guyzz,

I would like to share also my experience - if u are installing TechPlatform on x64 OS (WIN XP64, Vista 64), automatic installation configurator somehow fails, if you point installation directory into [Program Files (x86)]. This is because of parenthesis thing, many installers have problem with this. Then it also throws message [Access denied] - which is primarily due to invalid [ServerRoot] value.

Solution - simply install into historical directory [Program Files].

Cheers.
XL:-)

or properly escape parethesises in the Apache config?

I'm receiving the following error after installing the NuSphere Technology Platform:

Failed to start Apache
"C:\Program Files\NuSphere\TechPlat\apache\bin\httpd.exe"

System error: Access is denied

When I attempt to run the httpd.exe file from the command line I receive the following error:

httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 42 of C:/Program Files/nusphere/TechPlat/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
ServerRoot must be a valid directory

Anyone have any advice to give me about what I can do to fix this issue?

Thanks!

would you please submit there the content for 42nd line referred by the error message?