these are the values i entered during install
domain: localhost
server: localhost
email: does it matter?
... then i ran the apache console and opened my browser and typed "http://localhost" (as instructed). but i get the "page cannot be displayed"!
my error log displays this (which gives me the impression that its working fine so i have no idea whats going on):
[Sat Dec 13 21:48:50 2003] [notice] Parent: Created child process 732
[Sat Dec 13 21:48:50 2003] [notice] Child 732: Child process is running
[Sat Dec 13 21:48:50 2003] [notice] Child 732: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Dec 13 21:48:50 2003] [notice] Child 732: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:53 2003] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:53 2003] [notice] Child 732: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:54 2003] [notice] Child 732: Released the start mutex
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:55 2003] [notice] Child 732: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:55 2003] [notice] Child 732: All worker threads have exited.
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:55 2003] [notice] Child 732: Child process is exiting
[Sat Dec 13 21:51:56 2003] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
also, i'm using windows xp (in case you need to know).
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