From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 22:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E08337C0F6 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:33:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA74547; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D86951.47D3DF9@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:33:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting apache References: <3.0.6.32.20000321224520.01946100@bga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to use the Apache web server with FreeBSD 3.3. I installed > Apache from the ports on the FreeBSD 3.3 cdrom. > > When I type: > "/usr/local/sbin/httpd" > > the command prompt disappears for a few seconds and then re-appears. Did you do ANY configuration at all? You have to customize /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf first. Try /usr/local/sbin/httpd -t to get an idea where it is failing. apache is most definitely not plug and play. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message