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.
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 ***