Topic: Configuring Apache on Windows: Encrypted files

[webwench]

Perhaps everyone knows this but me, but since I fought with this issue for about an hour before successfully googling up the solution, I thought I'd post it.

I installed/configured Apache on my WindowsXP Professional laptop, and moved a directory of html files and subfolders into htdocs. I was able to pull up the default index.html document in a browser, and also created a phpinfo.php document and was able to pull that up in a browser.

However, none of the files in any of the subdirectories could be retrieved. I was also unable to pull up any files out of the root if the files had been copied from one of the subdirectories.

The error message I would get:

"Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/[directory]/[file]' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in Unknown on line 0"

It turned out to be the dumbest thing. My system encrypts all files, and once the file is encrypted, Apache won't display it. I unencrypted these files,and they were fine.

I neer would have guessed this from the error I saw in Apache, of course.

Hope this helps someone