problem setting up webserver with httpd

[invicta]

hello i have a problem setting up a webserver with httpd. my httpd.conf file has this line

root /htdocs/tolkienclub.art

so that it can acess the index .html file here

/var/www/htdocs/tolkienclub.art/index.html

heres the full part of my conf file

  
server tolkienclub.art {
          listen on $ext_ip port 80
          root /htdocs/tolkienclub.art

it will not run with this and gives me a syntax error on the root /htdocs/ line. when i take it off and start it my website reads 403 error. what is the correct way to do this? thanks for any help

[jggimi]

Escape the string with quotes, such as root "/htdocs/tolkienclub.art"

Per the httpd.conf(5) man page:

Argument names not beginning with a letter, digit, or underscore must be quoted.

And for my sanity, I just quote every string.