From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 2:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chupacabra.icon2.flyingcroc.net (chupacabra.icon2.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2579A14E52 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from moses@flyingcroc.com) Received: from chupacabra ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=moses) by chupacabra.icon2.flyingcroc.net with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12FESL-0006nq-00; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:53:17 -0800 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:53:16 -0800 (PST) From: X-Sender: moses@chupacabra.icon2.flyingcroc.net To: Chip Wiegand Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: httpd will not start In-Reply-To: <38952D81.7C4F1B02@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Chip Wiegand wrote: > I sent a message a bit ago but found the answer on a web site. > Now when I enter ./apachectl start I get the following returned: > httpd could not be started > When I run ./apachectl configtest it returns Syntax OK > What could be wrong? > Chip W > Please respond by email, my isp doesn't carry this newsgroup. :-( > chip@wiegand.org CC:'ing the list as well, in case anyone else has this problem. While apachectl is a great script for testing your apache configuration, the one thing that it won't check for is if the log files can be created. If, for example, you have: TransferLog /usr/local/www/server/logs/access_log but /usr/local/www/server/logs/ doesn't exist, it will tell you that the syntax is ok, but it won't be able start apache, and the error log (if it can be created) isn't much help either. Make sure the paths leading up to all of your log files exists. Hope this helps, Moses -- Moses Leslie email: moses@flyingcroc.com pager: pagehosting@flyingcroc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message