From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 26 15:17:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA26434 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA26429 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@cpl.net) Received: from shawn.cyberg8t.com (shawn.cpl.net [207.67.172.196]) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA20925; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:16:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Shawn Ramsey" To: , "Bob Boone" Subject: Re: APACHE failures...... Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:16:46 -0800 Message-ID: <01bce265$3af5e8e0$c4ac43cf@shawn.cyberg8t.com> 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 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>From the "LOOKING TOO CLOSE" department: > > I finally figured out my problem installing the new APACHE 1.2.4 via >PORTS or via APACHE source/binaries...... > > THERE ARE NO "default" .CONF files as part of the distribution ( as they >always were before...), they are > > .conf-dist (duh!) > > THOSE files are exactly where httpd looks for .conf .... so copying my >OLD .conf files into that sub-dir SOLVED the problem. > > Sometimes you can see the forest for the "-dist". It has been like this for a VERY long time, in fact, since ive been using it... at least 2 years I would guess. How old is Apache?