Sunday, August 2, 2009

Symfony and XAMPP httpd.conf file issues

Here is another short simple post of something I had to figure out and could not find documented anywhere.

Problem: When install the Symfony MVC on my localhost (Windows Vista), I would copy-paste the additional httpd.conf settings to the httpd.conf file in the xampp folder. When I would restart Xampp (or apache more specifically) I would get a windows error telling me that Apache had failed to start properly.

Solution: Although I had switched the paths to be specific to windows, I did not know until reading documentation later that the apache still requires all backslashes to be forward slashes in the file paths.

Simple mistakes, but now solved.

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