Re: dav_svn kills apache on W2K server

On 2005-02-17 16:11:20 -0500, Erich Oliphant wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a customer who insists on using Windows as a server for some
> crazy reason :) Anyway, this is my first non-unix install of SVN and I
> am running into some problems. Basically, when I LoadModule
> mod_dav_svn, apache will not start. Even better, it fails silently,
> there's nothing in the apache error log. I tried setting the LogLevel
> to debug to see if there were msgs at that level that might've pointed
> to the problem but no joy.
>
> I read another thread on the list re: SVN, Apache and W2K server.
> Following some of the advice there, I used the dependency checker
> program on mod_dav_svn. libhttpd.dll was listed as an unsatisfied
> dependency for some reason (in the other thread, the main Visual C++
> .dll was the culprit). I added the Apache bin directory to the system
> PATH. That fixed it as far as dependency checker was concerned but I am
> still having the same problem at startup. It's definitely the
> mod_dav_svn as commenting out the line fixes the problem.
>
> I've verified everything else that I could think of. mod_dav is loaded
> elsewhere in the config with no problem.
>
> Any ideas?

Did you copy
libdb42.dll
intl.dll
mod_dav_svn.so
mod_authz_svn.so

into your apache modules directory?

Also, have you tried starting apache manually from the command line
instead of as a service? This usually causes any error to be dumped to
the console that the service manager otherwise loses. e.g.

C:>cd "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\bin"

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\bin>Apache.exe

Hope this helps,

-Dominic