Hi!

Yesterday i wanted to install the Apache2 which comes with the standart Debian 3.1a Sarge CD.
I did a "apt-get install apache2-common" which happyly installed everything. When i did "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" in kosnole, NOTHING happend. Not a single output to konsole nor a process started (tried with ps -ax).

What is wrong? I havent configured anything, so its all at a default level.

Thx

what does /var/log/syslog , /var/log/apache2/error.log say
when you run #dpkg --list | grep apache
does it state that 'apache2' is installed?

Thx

I'm gonna try that today when i get home.
Any other tips?

yeah, check the init script and see what causes it to exit with no output :-)

I'm back.
Well i stated the Apache again with "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" after that i checked Apache2s error Log, but there was nothing in it. Then I checkd the system log, and Apache2 was not mentioned.
dpkg --list | grep apache shows that apache2-common and apache2-utils are indeed installed. What tha heck? Is there a special way to install it?

Thanks

apt-get install apache2
try that command :-)

Well, where i am right now, i dont have internet. (My grandparents arent that up-to-date ) But Apache is on the CD! So the I have /media/cdrom0 in my sources and it installs the pakages which are on the CD. I and did exactly that: apt-get install apache2. And it installed happily and made all the folder and files it needed.

Now i am thinking of doing the following: as the rig is un-updated, i could just pop in the CD, re-install Debian over the root-partition and choose: Webserver in the pakage configuration. My /home is on a separate partition, so i dont loose anything.

I'm gonna report back tomorrow.

[EDIT]

Ok, went the radical way: removed apache2-common and apache2-utils and compiled it all. And it works! Great!

well done sir :-)

Well, once again I'm having problems.
As i said before, compiled apache2 with "--prefix=/usr/local/apache2", so that all it's folders end up in usr/local/apache2. Now, i made i new folder in /htdoc/ named "online", in this i've placed another folder called "music", which contains MP3-Files and is supposed to be "auto-indexed". In the httpd.conf i placed some lines to add icons, but it cant find them. httpd.conf ist one "above" the ./apache2 folder, so i thought i had to point the icons and errors to "../icons/ and "../error", but this doesnt work. The only way to get the icons working was to create a simlink von "downloads" to /usr/local/apache2/icons, which sux.

After reading this complex text, do you have any ideas?

post your apache config....
that might help us to help you

Well, my last post was...crapy... so here i go again:
The folder strukture is easy: everything is in /usr/local/apache2 .. there is a subfolder in ./htdocs/ called /kap4/ with another subfolder ./downloads/.

Here is the httpd.conf
This is just for learining and testing, so dont bother about the simplistic content.

PS: to get the Icons working I placed a symlink called ./icons/ in the folder ./kap4/ pointing to /usr/local/apache2/icons/

try adding double quotes at the end of the documentroot line!!!

They are probably there, but i just "cut" them out copy-paste'ing them from Linux to windows and then removing the little squares. But I will check on that.