WAMP Server 3.0.0 cannot open apache conf file

Question

I've re-installed WAMP in order to put it into a different directory. This was mainly so everything is automatically backed up.

Mysql starts ok, but apache fails with the following message from the event viewer:

The Apache service named reported the following error:

httpd.exe: Could not open configuration file bin/conf/httpd.conf: The system cannot find the path specified. .

This file is in the correct place (C:\googledrive\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.17\conf) and there isn't any other stray httpd.conf files that it might be picking up on the path or anywhere.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This turned out to be a permissions problem. It seems that the system account didn't have access to the directory containing the config file, but I guess must have had enough access to start up Apache and give that helpful (not) message!