Newbie LAMP Questions

lazylogic · 11-02-2007, 11:23 PM

Curious about LAMP, I followed the instruction at http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_debian_lamp_server and noticed that apache failed to start.

http://127.0.0.1/ in IceWeseal returns

Quote:

Unable to connect
Iceweasel can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1.

Googled and somewhere says add ServerName localhostinto /etc/apache2/apche2.conf. Issuing the command /etc/init.d/apache2 restart , returns

Quote:

Restarting web server: apache2httpd (no pid file) not running
failed!

Apache still fails :-(

Any advise and/or links is appreciate.

THANKS

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 11-03-2007, 12:37 AM

Did you try to restart apache as root? Have you tried just rebooting the server machine?

lazylogic · 11-03-2007, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Did you try to restart apache as root? Have you tried just rebooting the server machine?

Yup, tried it as root.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 11-03-2007, 10:52 PM

Try this command: /apache2/bin/apachectl start (adjust the path according to where your apachectl file is located). For further options type: man httpd.

lazylogic · 11-03-2007, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Try this command: /apache2/bin/apachectl start (adjust the path according to where your apachectl file is located). For further options type: man httpd.

Seems odd, /apache2/bin/apachectl returns

Quote:

bash: /apache2/bin/apachectl: No such file or directory

farslayer · 11-04-2007, 12:26 AM

Check if something is wrong with your config.. .
/etc/init.d/apache2 configtest
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

you are issuing a restart which is telling you it can't restart apache2 because it's not running to begin with..
try the more basic stop and start commands rather than the restart..

and you can always look in the error log /var/log/apache2/error.log

The Debian apache2 layout is fully documented in /etc/apache2/README

Code:

ServerRoot              ::      /etc/apache2
DocumentRoot            ::      /var/www
Apache Config Files     ::      /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
                        ::      /etc/apache2/ports.conf
Default VHost Config    ::      /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Module Locations        ::      /etc/apache2/mods-available, /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ErrorLog                ::      /var/log/apache2/error.log
AccessLog               ::      /var/log/apache2/access.log
cgi-bin                 ::      /usr/lib/cgi-bin
binaries (apachectl)    ::      /usr/sbin
start/stop              ::      /etc/init.d/apache2 (start|stop|graceful|configtest)

so you are looking in the wrong location for apachectl/apache2ctl..

lazylogic · 11-04-2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by farslayer

Check if something is wrong with your config.. .
..

farslayer, thanks for the pointer. Just tried the following but still unable to get apache2 working

/etc/init.d/apache2 configtest

Quote:

Usage: /etc/init.d/apache2 {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|start-htcacheclean|stop-htcacheclean}

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

Quote:

Stopping web server: apache2httpd (no pid file) not running
.

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Quote:

Starting web server: apache2 failed!

cat/var/log/apache2/error.log

Quote:

error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open mime types config file /etc/apache2/mime.types.
Configuration Failed

:-(

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 11-04-2007, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by lazylogic

cat/var/log/apache2/error.log

It should read cat /var/log/apache2/error.log (note the space between the cat and forward slash) if it still comes back with an error do: cat /var/log/httpd/error.log

lazylogic · 11-04-2007, 07:26 AM

I've finally solved it!! Will note it down for future users :-)

cat /var/log/apache2/error.log returns

Quote:

[error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open mime types config file /etc/apache2/mime.types.
Configuration Failed

Looking inside /etc/apache2/ and noticed that the file mime.types is missing.

However, there is a file called mime.types in /etc/

So I did a symlink

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ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/apache2/mime.types

and /etc/init.d/apache2 start works!

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Understand that the default web file directory is in /var/www/apache2-default/

1. Remember reading an article many months ago stating that the web directory can also be situated at /home/user/some_folder.

2. As I am installing apache out of curiosity, I really only wants apache to serve webpages locally (localhost) and not to any other computers.

Unfortunately couldn't relocate the article anymore. Anyone knows how this can be done?

THANKS!

j-ray · 11-04-2007, 12:18 PM

by a firewall i'd propose

farslayer · 11-04-2007, 05:45 PM

configure apache to only listen on the loopback address..

should be a documented setting in apache2.conf.

parf · 11-04-2007, 11:29 PM

i wonder if you're referring to

allow from 127.0.0.1 and commenting out the line allow from all,

j-ray · 11-05-2007, 02:48 AM

i think thats what he thought of but dont take 127.0.0.1 but

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.xxx

You could use mod_rewrite, too.

lazylogic · 11-05-2007, 06:05 AM

Thanks all for the info. I'll try them out :-)