From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 2 9: 5:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FFF14DE2 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA05843; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:04:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:04:32 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Ho Seng Yip Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Could Not Start Apache on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <006701be7d29$8858ba80$91a915a5@oasis> 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 Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Ho Seng Yip wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed 'apache-1.3.4' (if I remembered correctly), and have > configured the configuration files, setting the 'ServerHost' directive to > 127.0.0.1 in one of the files. > > When I tried starting the server with '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start', it > gives me the error message, '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start : httpd could > not be started'. For your information, httpd is located at > '/usr/local/sbin/httpd' and it can be executed manually without any errors. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting the problem ? > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Seng Yip > For some reason, this port of apache wants to look in /usr/local/etc/apache/etc/apache for all of its files. I unsucessfully attempted to use the command line options to fix this, so here is what i did. mkdir /usr/local/etc/apache/etc ln -s /usr/local/etc/apache /usr/local/etc/apache/etc/apache This works, though I realize this is less than an ideal solution. If anyone has further suggestions, I am open. :) Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message