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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:05:52 +0100
From:      Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
To:        snarmont@wnec.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: httpd could not be started
Message-ID:  <1137175552.794.2.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <17821403.1137174943074.JavaMail.root@m11>
References:  <17821403.1137174943074.JavaMail.root@m11>

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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:55 -0800, Steven Narmontas wrote:
> I'm entirely new to FreeBSD, but have a fair amount of Linux 
> experience.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 6.0 (Production Release) on an oldish i386 
> system.  During the install, I asked to install "ALL".  The 
> install went flawlessly.
> 
> I need Apache on this system for some software development, so I 
> followed these instructions I found at:  
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html 
> :
> 
> # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> # cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org 
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
> # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13
> # make
> # make install
> 
> Everything to this point went smoothly!  I edited 
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf ONLY to set the ServerName to the 
> IP address of the machine. However, when I try to start apache I 
> get:
> 
> #/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start
> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> 

Maybe httpd-error.log contains some suspicious-looking error messages?

[snip]

-- 
Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>




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