{"id":2382,"date":"2010-12-15T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2017-09-14T06:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T06:25:52","slug":"requested-operation-failed-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/requested-operation-failed-apache","title":{"rendered":"Requested Operation Failed! Apache error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"question\">I followed your instructions on <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/install-apache-windows-7\" title=\"Instructions and screenshots on how to install Apache on Windows 7\">how to install Apache<\/a> and they worked fine. The server started without problem. Then I installed PHP and restarted Apache. It gave the &#8220;Requested Operation Failed&#8221; error. Any ideas? Thanks for the work you did.<br \/><span class=\"v-name\">Greg<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;Requested Operation Failed&#8217; error from Apache generally means something is <em>wrong with the configuration file<\/em> &#8211; httpd.conf. It may also result because <em>another program is using port 80<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bottom-ads\">\n<h4>Sponsored Links<\/h4>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Inner Page Top - Non Responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1043128618639037\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5670477364\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n<h2>Requested Operation Failed because of httpd.conf<\/h2>\n<p>Firstly, make sure that you&#8217;ve edited the Apache <span class=\"codeword\">httpd.conf<\/span> file properly. Any stray characters will completely ruin the server configuration and prevent it from starting, <strong>resulting in a <em>Requested Operation Filed<\/em> error<\/strong>. Check and double-check the modifications you&#8217;ve made to the configuration file. I also suggest rebooting your computer.<\/p>\n<p>Remember you can test the Apache configuration through &#8220;<em>Programs<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Apache HTTP Server 2.2<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Configure Apache Server<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Test Configuration<\/em>&#8220;. If things are fine, a terminal window should quickly appear and then disappear.<\/p>\n<h2>Conflict between two programs &#8211; port 80 usage<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;Requested Operation Failed &#8221; error may also be because of another program using port 80. A case in point is the popular video conferencing program, <strong>Skype<\/strong>. To get around this problem, change the port that Skype uses &#8211; &#8220;<em>Tools<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Options<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Advanced<\/em>&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;<em>Connection<\/em>&#8221; and uncheck &#8220;<em>Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Firewalls<\/em> and <em>anti-virus programs (Norton)<\/em> can also be prevent Apache <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/what-is-web-server\" title=\"A beginners introduction to web server and how it works\">web server<\/a> from starting up properly.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: It seems you have made a mistake while editing the Apache httpd.conf file because of which the web server throws a &#8216;Requested Operation Failed&#8217; error; remember, it worked fine the first time and failed after <a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/install-php-windows-7\" title=\"Detailed steps on how to install PHP on Windows 7\">PHP was installed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related articles<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"withbullets\">\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/apache-error-forbidden-you-dont-have-permission-to-access-on-this-server\" title=\"Forbidden - you don't have permission to access file on this server\">Forbidden &#8211; you don&#8217;t have permission to access file on this server: Apache error<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/apache-cannot-load-php5apache2_2-dll-not-found\" title=\"File not found: cannot load php5apache2_2.dll\">Apache server cannot load php5apache2_2.dll file<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I followed your instructions on how to install Apache and they worked fine. The server started without problem. Then I installed PHP and restarted Apache. It gave the &#8220;Requested Operation Failed&#8221; error. Any ideas? Thanks for the work you did.Greg A &#8216;Requested Operation Failed&#8217; error from Apache generally means something is wrong with the configuration [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-answers","category-apache"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}