From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 18:05:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5D416A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5694E43D45 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:25440 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1ExTJA-000Dwz-0S; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:05:52 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: snarmont@wnec.edu In-Reply-To: <17821403.1137174943074.JavaMail.root@m11> References: <17821403.1137174943074.JavaMail.root@m11> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:05:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1137175552.794.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: httpd could not be started X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:05:53 -0000 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