Bug 48342

Summary:	Long names in Windows 7 64Bit causes conf file syntax errors
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Tamalero <tamalero>
Component:	Win32 MSI Installer	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.2.14
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista

Description Tamalero 2009-12-06 23:11:51 UTC

When installing Apache 2.2.14 on its default options & directory ( installing on C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2\ )
creates a problem that will report errors in conf file.
Error type: Syntax Error 
usually in the first parts ( domain, admin email )
no modification of the conf file will make the file work until you've changed the default installation directory.

To fix the problem:

changing the directory to a shorter filename with no spaces:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache\Apache2.2
makes the problem away and conf file will then report NO ERRORS.

Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2009-12-07 06:51:19 UTC

This report is a dup of one of two errors.  The spaces do not cause a problem.

The ()'s are a syntax error in the context of some directives (shm mutex for
example), while international characters also cause problems (need to be
converted to utf-8, a missing feature in the installer/conf rewriter).

Marking invalid as both bugs are already open.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33685 ***