From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 5: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE3615067 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 05:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.11.129.121]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990906120406.BLGE21497.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a> for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 05:04:06 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990906050405.026f7ec0@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 05:04:05 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: charon@freethought.org Subject: problems starting apache Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know almost nothing about apache, but decided that I wanted to learn, so I installed apache 1.3.9 via the port. I then tried '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start' but got a ServerName error - the apache FAQ said that I needed to add a ServerName, so I uncommented an entry in httpd.conf - 'ServerName localhost'. I then tried '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start' again, but simply got the error message "/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started". This is a rather unhelpful error message, and I didn't see anything in apache.org's sketchy manuals to help... the apachectl man page is simlarly devoid of useful info. In case it helps, '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl configtest' replies "Syntax OK", and 'ping locahost' works nice and dandy. Any ideas from those httpd experts out there would be greatly appreciated. -Charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message