os-windows/3740: installer does not finish;httpd.conf does not read from registry

[Tom Scheel <to...@habitat.org>]

>Number:         3740
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       installer does not finish;httpd.conf does not read from registry
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 21 11:30:02 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     tom_scheel@habitat.org
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.4
>Environment:
MS Windows 4.00.1381
IE 4.0 4.72.3110.8 (aka service patch 2)
>Description:
Brand new clean install. I got 1.3.4 off of apache.org and used the setup (typical). No problems reported. However, it didn't work and I noticed a lot of files .conf in the .tmp directory. So I moved those over to .conf. When I ran it from the start menu, no log file created. So I went to DOS prompt. There I got errors on line 93 "serverroot must be a valid directory". The registry entry was there, and as I played with it I could see that the DOS error message was reading from the registry. But it wouldn't move to the next error until I put the actual path in the httpd.conf file. I had the same problem with Document Root "DocumentRoot must be a directory". My guess is that httpd.conf is not reading the registry entry.
>How-To-Repeat:
Clean install of NT version. Verify that installation completes (no files in .tmp) and that serverroot and document root can remain "@@serverroot/?" - if so then its unique to my install.
>Fix:
No.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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