hi 2 all

I'm a newbie to both apache and linux.

I installed apache-2.0.47 on my redhat7.2 under " /usr/local/apache" everything worked properly.

I tried to uninstall apache server ( by deleting files and directories) and reinstall it in order to get much familiar with installing proccess and other features .

This time I installed it under "/usr/local/apache2" , but when i try to start apache by runing

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

it says that the file " /usr/local/apache/httpd.conf" can't be opened.

It means that it's trying to open it from previouse installation directory.

please help me
m_a

apachectl is a script that calls httpd, open it up and have a look

do
man httpd
to find out what paramters and how you can pass to httpd

edit apachetl

and alter the line to what's appropriate in your situation

HTTPD=

including any start up parameters i.e location of httpd.conf, server root

Hope this helps

hi !
tnx for helping , but there is no man page for that !!!!

m_a

Here it is then


httpd(8) httpd(8)

NAME
httpd - Apache hypertext transfer protocol server

SYNOPSIS
httpd [ -d serverroot ] [ -f config ] [ -C directive ] [ -c directive ]
[ -D parameter ]

httpd [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -v ] [ -V ] [ -t ] [ -X ]

DESCRIPTION
httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program.
It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon process. When used like
this it will create a pool of child processes to handle requests. To
stop it, send a TERM signal to the initial (parent) process. The PID of
this process is written to a file as given in the configuration file.

This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of
the directives necessary to configure httpd see the Apache manual,
which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at
http://httpd.apache.org/. Paths in this manual may not reflect those
compiled into httpd.

OPTIONS
-d serverroot
Set the initial value for the ServerRoot directive to
serverroot. This can be overridden by the ServerRoot com-
mand in the configuration file. The default is /etc/httpd.

-f config Execute the commands in the file config on startup. If con-
fig does not begin with a /, then it is taken to be a path
relative to the ServerRoot. The default is conf/httpd.conf.

-C directive
Process the configuration directive before reading config
files.

-c directive
Process the configuration directive after reading config
files.

-D parameter
Sets a configuration parameter which can be used with
<IfDefine>...</IfDefine> sections in the configuration
files to conditionally skip or process commands.

-h Output a short summary of available command line options.

-l Output a list of modules compiled into the server.

-L Output a list of directives together with expected argu-
ments and places where the directive is valid.

-S Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently
only shows the virtualhost settings).

-t Run syntax tests for configuration files only. The program
immediately exits after these syntax parsing with either a
return code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0
(Syntax Error). If -D DUMP_VHOSTS is also set, details of
the virtual host configuration will be printed.

-v Print the version of httpd , and then exit.

-V Print the version and build parameters of httpd , and then
exit.

-X Run httpd in debug mode. Only one worker will be started
and the server will not detach from the console.

FILES
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/mime.types
/etc/httpd/conf/magic
/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/run/httpd.pid

try to delete all the dir's that were installed.install apache as given below

untar apache file in /usr/local/src
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-shared=rewrite --enable-module=rewrite
make and make install

tell me if this works