From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 14:18: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A16C6151A8 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22347; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:50:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdX22345; Fri Oct 15 07:50:08 1999 Message-ID: <004101bf168b$25aec860$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Christopher Michaels" Cc: References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CE5@site2s1> Subject: Re: problems starting apache Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:29:01 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the response Christopher FWIW, the archives are near full of reports from people who have had exactly same trouble. It turns our that the answer is relatively simple but the very terse setup documentation fails to mention this. When Apache is installed as a package, there are several config files installed as blah.conf.default ..... these have to be copied as blah.conf before the thing will work .... one line of explanation in the way of a ReadMe with Apache would have saved at least hundreds of people experiencing the same sort of aggro so if any of the Apache developers reads this they may care to rectify this matter ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Doug Young' Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:20 AM Subject: RE: problems starting apache > I'm sorry I don't. You might want to look through the mailing list > archives. > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Doug Young [SMTP:dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:40 AM > > To: Christopher Michaels > > Subject: Re: problems starting apache > > > > This goes back a while but maybe you can still remember how > > the issue described here was resolved ..... my apache.log file > > is totally blank so its no help in resolving the problem > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Christopher Michaels > > To: ; > > Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:40 AM > > Subject: RE: problems starting apache > > > > > > > Try checking the log files for exactly what is happening > > /var/log/apache.log > > > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: charon@freethought.org [SMTP:charon@freethought.org] > > > > Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:04 AM > > > > To: questions@freebsd.org > > > > Subject: problems starting apache > > > > > > > > I know almost nothing about apache, but decided that I wanted to > > learn, > > so > > > > I installed apache 1.3.9 via the port. I then tried > > > > '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start' but got a ServerName error - the > > apache > > > > FAQ said that I needed to add a ServerName, so I uncommented an entry > > in > > > > httpd.conf - 'ServerName localhost'. I then tried > > > > '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start' again, but simply got the error > > message > > > > "/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started". > > > > > > > > This is a rather unhelpful error message, and I didn't see anything in > > > > apache.org's sketchy manuals to help... the apachectl man page is > > simlarly > > > > devoid of useful info. In case it helps, '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl > > > > configtest' replies "Syntax OK", and 'ping locahost' works nice and > > dandy. > > > > Any ideas from those httpd experts out there would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Charon > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message