Topic: How do I get more useful error messages from apache?

[kentlewan]

Hi,

I keep getting the message "Requested Operation has failed", whenever I make any change to my http.conf file (for instance, to add configuration lines for PHP). I see in this forum that other users seem to be getting useful error messages when there is a problem with their apache config. However, I am not. I only get the message "The requested operation has failed."

NOTE: I DID read apache documentation and I DID change logLevel in httpd.conf to LogLevel debug
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#
# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <VirtualHost>
# container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
# logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a <VirtualHost>
# container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
#
ErrorLog logs/error.log

#
# LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
#
# LogLevel warn
LogLevel debug

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Can someone please tell me what I have to do to get more useful error messages for when I am modifying apache config? Thanks

[James Blond]

You can start apache grom the console (cmd) with httpd -e debug -w

Which version of Apache and PHP do you use? What do you try to add to the httpd.conf?