Hi Bob,

Are you able to post error messages from your HTTPD error log?

Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Bob Wilson
<b...@bobandedwilson.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache?
>
> I was told that to make localhost point to a alternative directory I
> should change both the 'Documentroot' AND 'Directory' paths
>
>
> The original info in httpd.conf works OK
>
> DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software
> Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"
>
> <Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software
> Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs">
>
> I have changed it to:
>
> DocumentRoot "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs"
>
> <Directory "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs">
>
> Which doesn't work with error message 'The requested operation has failed!'
>
> I'm sure that I didn't have this problem with XP but I'm now using Windows 7
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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