Hi, i was toying around in the httpd conf file in FC4 and i messed it up really bad, now httpd wont start. I forgot to make a backup copy of it. I just installed fedora so everything is default.

If anybody could post their default copy of httpd.con especially around lines 800- 900 sinec thats where i was toying aropund, it would be much appreciated.

Please help.

Thank you.

why don't u first remove the httpd package and then reinstall that package from the CD

regards

because then i have dependency problems, i would have to remove a whole bunch of other things too.

There appears to be a copy here - will that help?

unfortunately it doesnt. that one is quite a bit different from mine
the error im getting is that at line 830 there's an "</Directory>" without a "<Directory>", that part is like totally messed up from 800 to 830.

Can you post that section, from wherever you think the starting <DIRECTORY> tag is until line 830? We can try to help you sort it out :-)

# Alias /error/include/ "/your/include/path/"
#
# which allows you to create your own set of files by starting with the
# /var/www/error/include/ files and
# copying them to /your/include/path/, even on<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory> a per-VirtualHost basis. (this is the problem line)
#

ok
then move the httpd.conf file

install the httpd package by

rpm -ivh --nodeps --force httpd...rpm

error: open of httpd.rpm failed: No such file or directory

hey !!
get that rpm from the fedora CD
copy that to some directory
and go to that path

then install ot as i mentioned
and u need to specify the ful file name of the rpm filr httpd
for that
write
rpm -ivh --force httpd
and press TAB
and u will get the ful file name
you need to be in that directory where u have the httpd rpm or specify the path where that httpd rpm is

regards

how about looking into /usr/share/doc/
in your webserver directory or a httpd directory you might find something like an example directory which could the file you are looking for.

Yeah..httpd.conf works like an HTML document - tags need to be in pairs. So the problem is, you don't have an opening <Directory> tag. The comment right above in the section you pasted seems to say that you're working with the section for /error/include/, and my httpd.conf file says this:

#
# Customizable error responses come in three flavors:
# 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects
#
# Some examples:
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"
#ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html
#

#
# Putting this all together, we can internationalize error responses.
#
# We use Alias to redirect any /error/HTTP_<error>.html.var response to
# our collection of by-error message multi-language collections. We use
# includes to substitute the appropriate text.
#
# You can modify the messages' appearance without changing any of the
# default HTTP_<error>.html.var files by adding the line:
#
# Alias /error/include/ "/your/include/path/"
#
# which allows you to create your own set of files by starting with the
# @exp_errordir@/include/ files and copying them to /your/include/path/,
# even on a per-VirtualHost basis. The default include files will display
# your Apache version number and your ServerAdmin email address regardless
# of the setting of ServerSignature.
#
# The internationalized error documents require mod_alias, mod_include
# and mod_negotiation. To activate them, uncomment the following 30 lines.

# Alias /error/ "@exp_errordir@/"
#
# <Directory "@exp_errordir@">
# AllowOverride None
# Options IncludesNoExec
# AddOutputFilter Includes html
# AddHandler type-map var
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# LanguagePriority en cs de es fr it ja ko nl pl pt-br ro sv tr
# ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
# </Directory>


Which I take to mean that somehow you copied part of an earlier part of the document into this section. The <LimitExcept> section is waaay earlier - see here