Hi,
Thanks for the response.
I didn't use "setup_xampp.bat" as per the instructions in the readme file.
The XAMPP installation only seems to work on a computer where the drive letter assigned to the removable drive is the same as the original used when setting the security passwords for the XAMP folders on the server.
Could it be that the drive letter is hard-coded somewhere in the security settings? I'm convinced it's a path issue as the server works fine when you plug it back into the original computer.
The entry in the error log generated by trying to access the computer on the laptop (Drive D) as opposed to the desktop (Drive H:) are as follows:
Mon Mar 19 16:26:35 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan 30 2007 12:11:56
[Mon Mar 19 16:26:35 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3060
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:01 2007] [notice] Child 3060: Child process is running
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:01 2007] [notice] Child 3060: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:01 2007] [notice] Child 3060: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:01 2007] [notice] Child 3060: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:01 2007] [notice] Child 3060: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Mon Mar 19 16:27:05 2007] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] D:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/.htaccess: Invalid file path H:\\xampp\\security\\xampp.users
[Mon Mar 19 16:40:09 2007] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Mon Mar 19 16:40:09 2007] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null
[Mon Mar 19 16:40:12 2007] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Mon Mar 19 16:40:12 2007] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null
[Mon Mar 19 16:40:16 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8d mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
So -- my XAMPP installation is on a portable drive... but I can only use it on the original computer, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing!
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Calvin!