msi aborts on attempt to install 2.0.39 over 2.036 on NT4.0

[Jennifer Allen <jr...@alaska.net>]

Hello,

I'm attempting to upgrade to Apache 2.0.39 over the top of an existing 
2.0.36
installation, on winNT4.0 service pack 6.0a, using windows installer 
V1.10.1029.1 .

The install terminates immediately with message:

   "Another version of this product is already installed.  Installation 
of this version
    cannot continue.  To configure or remove the existing version of 
this product,
    use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel."


V 2.0.36 installed flawlessly May 15 from .msi, taking all defaults, and 
has been
running since. The service was stopped and the machine rebooted before 
beginning
the upgrade. No other web servers are present. Moving, renaming or 
deleting the
old 2.0.36 directories, startup shortcuts, and  the service itself made 
no difference.
There seems to be no way to do further uninstall thrrough the Control 
Panel and
nothing obvious in regedit although I am a novice with registries.

The docs and faqs refer to reinstalls that leave conf files unchanged, 
etc, so I'm
assuming it must be possible to install over an existing older version.  
I must be
missing something very basic here. I ran NCSA httpd on Solaris for 5 
years but
am not a Windows expert...  Can someone please advise how to proceed 
with the
upgrade?

Many thanks for your time,

Jennifer Allen




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Re: msi aborts on attempt to install 2.0.39 over 2.036 on NT4.0

[Jeff Beard <je...@cyberxape.com>]

I don't mean to be impertinent (or offensive) but you didn't 
specifically mention using the "Add/Remove Software" control panel to 
uninstall.

Anyway, if you have done so and I haven't offended you so much you quit 
reading, you are probably correct in that there's a registry key it's 
tripping over.

Have you tried a search for 'Apache'? I found 2 keys in 
HKEY_L_M\Software\: "Apache Group" and "Apache Software Foundation".

--Jeff

Jennifer Allen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to upgrade to Apache 2.0.39 over the top of an existing 
> 2.0.36
> installation, on winNT4.0 service pack 6.0a, using windows installer 
> V1.10.1029.1 .
> 
> The install terminates immediately with message:
> 
>   "Another version of this product is already installed.  Installation 
> of this version
>    cannot continue.  To configure or remove the existing version of this 
> product,
>    use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel."
> 
> 
> V 2.0.36 installed flawlessly May 15 from .msi, taking all defaults, and 
> has been
> running since. The service was stopped and the machine rebooted before 
> beginning
> the upgrade. No other web servers are present. Moving, renaming or 
> deleting the
> old 2.0.36 directories, startup shortcuts, and  the service itself made 
> no difference.
> There seems to be no way to do further uninstall thrrough the Control 
> Panel and
> nothing obvious in regedit although I am a novice with registries.
> 
> The docs and faqs refer to reinstalls that leave conf files unchanged, 
> etc, so I'm
> assuming it must be possible to install over an existing older version.  
> I must be
> missing something very basic here. I ran NCSA httpd on Solaris for 5 
> years but
> am not a Windows expert...  Can someone please advise how to proceed 
> with the
> upgrade?
> 
> Many thanks for your time,
> 
> Jennifer Allen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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