title: Apache won't start on windows server
body: <p>We are using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. We have Apache 2.2 on it.</p>
  
  <p>Whether I try to start him from the command line or via the Server Manager, I get this error</p>
  
  <p>"<em>A service specific error occurred: 1.</em>" </p>
  
  <p>Google, Bing, and Yahoo found me sites that say this means that apache tried to access a file in a folder which doesn’t exist. (Is that true ?) Following that lead, more googling told me that I would find the culprit(s) in an error log file, purportedly on my server, in this subdirectory...</p>
  
  <pre><code> C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There is no record of my errors in any of the files in that subdirectory. There are, however, records of errors in the <em>error.log</em> file from two and three weeks ago.  This, despite the fact that I can create that very error as many times as I want right here and now.</p>
  
  <p>Immediate question: Where do I find the log of the errors that I have been creating today ?</p>
  
  <p>Real question: why won't Apache start on my Windows Server ?</p>