From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 3:40:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quark.pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C5D3D96 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 03:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.homenet (sb26.pioneernet.net [208.194.173.26]) by quark.pioneernet.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1B9XVLLX; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:21:39 -0800 From: Chip To: Craig Burgess Subject: Re: httpd will not start Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:09:05 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions References: <38953142.7F55C7DB@home.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00013118220001.00315@chip.homenet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Craig Burgess wrote: > A couple thoughts: > > 2.) Check out /var/log/httpd-error.log for clues... The error log is full of this line - [Mon Jan 31 17:37:11 2000] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("chip.homenet") This machine I am running this on is called chip and my homenetwork is called homenet, thus chip.homenet My guess is I will need to change this? > 1.) You are trying to start as root, aren't you? Yes I am starting it as root. One item I did change is the following - DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/data.default" - was originally /usr/local/ww/data but my directory has a file (link) to data.default which links to /usr/local/share/doc/apache When I move into the directory /usr/local/www/data.default I get the html page that says It Worked! Apache Web Server is installed on this web site! > > craig > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message