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When I try to start Apache with xampp-control.exe or with apache_start.bat, apache doesn't start. This is the message that appears:

Apache 2 is starting ...
apache.exe: Syntax error on line 42 of C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxx/My Documents/downloads/XAMPP Lite 1.5.4a/xampplite/apache/conf/httpd.conf: ServerRoot must be a valid directory

Looking in the httpd.conf file, DocumentRoot looks like this:

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DocumentRoot "/xampplite/htdocs"

Version 1.5.1 starts fine. It's DocumentRoot looks like this:

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DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxxx/My Documents/downloads/XAMPP Lite 1.5.1/xampplite/htdocs"

Did you run "setup_xampp.bat"? Its my understanding this updates such values.

Doh! You're right. I feel so stupid....

I wouldn't feel bad, I had the same problem a little while ago when I moved Xampp to another partition, I was stuck till I went threw the instructions again , when I saw your post it sounded close.

Glad I was able to help.