From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 9:41:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1AA37B79A for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:41:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip116.r2.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip116.r2.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.116]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23175; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:41:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:35:16 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Jim C Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Danny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: httpd pid In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000314085317.00a43358@mail.enterit.com> 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 Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jim C wrote: > You apparently are having a configuration file problem. Your apache is > looking for /usr/local/etc/local/etc/httpd.conf What's strange about this is that it does read from the file httpd.conf. If I change the parameters in that file to something incorrect, for example if I give it the wrong path to the modules, I get an error message when I run 'apachectl start'. So, it is reading from that file, yet in the error log it claims to be unable to find it. > To fix this, you probably want to recompile your copy of apache but this > time in the ./configure line use something like this in the parameters of > the configure command: > > ./configure --syconfdir=/usr/local/etc > > In fact, if you didn't use any parameters for apache you may want to do a > > ./configure --help Wait a minute, there was nothing about ./configure when I installed it. At what point am I supposed to do that? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message