Hwello,
I am not very familiar with Apache 2.0.49 (if that is still the latest version under Windows), but instead I use Apache 1.3.31. I have found through much experimentation under Windows XP Pro, Apache 2.0.x is very fast, while Apache 1.3.x is very stable. Anyone with any knowledge as to why, please enlighten me.
If the error message you are getting is something like "Apache cannot bind to this IP address", open your httpd.conf file (by default, c:\program files\apache group\apache2\conf\httpd.conf) and change the binding IP address to 0.0.0.0. This directs Apache to try and listen for connections on all IP addresses on that computer. If that does not work, change the server port from 80 to something obscure, like 63733. If Apache works after changing the server port, then there is another program listening on port 80, that needs to be axed before you can run a webserver.
If you need any help at all, please PM me. If you want to see the config file for my webserver (
http://endeavour.zapto.org/), go to
http://endeavour.zapto.org/httpd.conf.txt. My server is running Apache 1.3.31 on Windows 2000.