Apache 4.0.46 and Win2k - no page served through localhost

OK, Apache gurus.

I've been using Apache 1.3 for a while (with PHP) to develop some web sites
on my laptop running Windows 2000 (I put them onto my Linux box for final
proofing). No problems to date.

Recently I had cause to rebuild the laptop so I thought I would take the
opportunity to install Apache 2.0.46. However I now have a problem, perhaps
someone can help.

The Windows 2000 installation is new and up-to-date with all the MS upgrades
as of today (5th July 2003), I have installed Apache 2.0.46 "straight out of
the box" (so, default conf files etc). When I try to hit the localhost
address to get the default page I get no response, the browser disappears
off into the ether and hangs.

netstat -an reports that there is indeed a process listening to port 80 (and
stopping the Apache service frees up that port so I'm pretty confident that
it is apache doing the listening).

I have run a telnet session against port 80 and issued a GET / HTTP/1.0 with
no response at all.

Watching the process table I see that the Apache service is running at full
tilt, taking all the CPU cycles available (so its up to something) - this
happens before and after the attempt to hit the page.

I thought at one point it might be the ZoneAlarm blocking the port, so I
downed ZoneAlarm, same result.

I've done a fair bit of research and have come across a few other people
describing the same (or very similar) problems, but no-one has offered a
solution. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Mark Bools

Thanks for the suggestion Rach. Tried your suggestion, sadly no positive
outcome to report. I have given up on 2.0.x andgone back to 1.3.x which is
working fine.

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Mark Bools
Inspect (UK) Ltd
Software Process Consultant