I have done several things to resolve this, but no joy.

1) I tried disabling Windows Personal Firewall
2) I rebooted
3) I changed the logging level to debug

  This resulted in the following log:
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal
  -- Restarting the server.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [notice] Child 2352: Exit event signaled.
  Child process is ending.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) configured
  -- resuming normal operations
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1284
  [Wed May 14 07:50:41 2008] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(487): Parent: Sent
  the scoreboard to the child
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [info] Child 2352: Accept thread exiting.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [notice] Child 2352: Released the start mutex
  *_[Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [info] Child 2352: 64 threads blocked
  on the completion port_*
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [notice] Child 1284: Child process is running
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 772 and
  sending it to child process 1284
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(605): Parent: Sent 1
  listeners to child 1284
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(408): Child 1284:
  Retrieved our scoreboard from the parent.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(564): Child 1284:
  retrieved 1 listeners from parent
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [notice] Child 1284: Acquired the start
  mutex.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [notice] Child 1284: Starting 64 worker
  threads.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:42 2008] [notice] Child 1284: Starting thread to
  listen on port 80.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:43 2008] [notice] Child 2352: All worker threads
  have exited.
  [Wed May 14 07:50:43 2008] [notice] Child 2352: Child process is exiting

  The thing that concerns me here is the part that says "64 threads
  blocked". What can cause this, or is it a real problem?


Mark Murphy wrote:
> This may or may not be an install issue. I downloaded the most recent
> version of Apache 2.2.8 (Win32). I downloaded the installer, and ran
> it. This was a clean install as Apache was not on the system
> previously, and IIS is not on the system either. My operating system
> is Windows XP Media Center.
>
> Apache appeared to install properly, and the Monitor indicates that
> Apache is running properly. There are no apparent errors in the log.
>
> [Tue May 13 21:29:34 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) configured --
> resuming normal operations
> [Tue May 13 21:29:34 2008] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19
> [Tue May 13 21:29:34 2008] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1636
> [Tue May 13 21:29:35 2008] [notice] Child 1636: Child process is running
> [Tue May 13 21:29:35 2008] [notice] Child 1636: Acquired the start mutex.
> [Tue May 13 21:29:35 2008] [notice] Child 1636: Starting 64 worker
> threads.
> [Tue May 13 21:29:35 2008] [notice] Child 1636: Starting thread to
> listen on port 80.
>
>
> The problem is I cannot connect to the server. When I point my
> browser at http://localhost/ it just sits there spinning, waiting for
> something. If I stop the server I immediately get an Unable to
> connect error:
>
> Unable to connect
> Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.
>   *  The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try
> again in a few
>       moments.
>   *  If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
>       connection.
>   *  If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or
> proxy, make sure
>       that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>
> Something is happening but I just don't know what. Can anyone provide
> some assistance?
>
> BTW, the FAQ said something about making sure that there is a valid
> ServerName line in the config file, so I made that "localhost". And
> the Windows DNS Client service is started.
>
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