httpd fails to start due to syntax error saying "No comments are allowed here"

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Issue

  • We recently updated. httpd now fails to start due to a syntax error:
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 15 of /etc/httpd/conf/myconf.conf:
No comments are allowed here

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x
  • Apache httpd 2.2.15

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