From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 9:58:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enterweb.enterit.com (enterweb.enterit.com [209.45.199.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AAD37B6FE for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from KWAN [209.45.199.38] by enterweb.enterit.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.04) id AD8518F014A; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:57:25 DT Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000314130414.0144a5c0@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: notjames@mail.pseudonet.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:06:10 -0500 To: R Joseph Wright From: Jim C Subject: Re: httpd pid Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Danny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.20000314085317.00a43358@mail.enterit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well. It depends. If you are using the ports version of apache you don't have to do anything with ./configure. If you are upgrading it manually, you will use ./configure before any make commands. The manual upgrade is what I prefer over ports. I had nothing *but* problems (such as yours) when I used ports. -Jim At 09.35 14.03.00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message