apache issue...
 

Hello everybody,

I downloaded redhat9 and successfully installed included Apache. For education reasons, i uninstalled Apache and reinstalled it with success. the instruction, i used to install Apaceh , installed Apache in /wwwroot.
Problem area: everytime i try to run apache it seem to access the old configuration files...
example:
/wwwroot/bin/apachectl start seem to start from /etc/httpd(looking for the httpd.conf file in here).
Som when i start apachectl start it should look for the configuration file in /wwwroot/conf and not in /etc/httpd....
anyhelp u can give me would be greatly appreciated...
robin
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I changed the init.d to point to /wwwroot but it still going back to /etc/httpd for somereason...

this is the init.d/httpd script: i currently have..
#!/bin/bash
#
# Startup script for the Apache Web Server
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Apache is a World Wide Web server. It is used to serve \
# HTML files and CGI.
# processname: httpd
# pidfile: /var/run/httpd.pid
# config: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/httpd ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/httpd
fi

# This will prevent initlog from swallowing up a pass-phrase prompt if
# mod_ssl needs a pass-phrase from the user.
INITLOG_ARGS=""

# Set HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker in /etc/sysconfig/httpd to use a server
# with the thread-based "worker" MPM; BE WARNED that some modules may not
# work correctly with a thread-based MPM; notably PHP will refuse to start.

anyhelp you can give me would be greatly appreciated...trying to understand this but not sure what is this i'm doing wrong...

# Path to the apachectl script, server binary, and short-form for messages.
# apachectl=/usr/sbin/apachectl --was
apachectl=/wwwroot/bin/apachectl
httpd=${HTTPD-/wwwroot/bin/httpd}
prog=httpd
RETVAL=0

#CONFFILE=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf --was 3 lines down
# check for 1.3 configuration
check13 () {
CONFFILE=/wwwroot/conf/httpd.conf
GONE="(ServerType|BindAddress|Port|AddModule|ClearModuleList|"
GONE="${GONE}AgentLog|RefererLog|RefererIgnore|FancyIndexing|"
GONE="${GONE}AccessConfig|ResourceConfig)"
if grep -Eiq "^[[:space:]]*($GONE)" $CONFFILE; then
echo
echo 1>&2 " Apache 1.3 configuration directives found"
echo 1>&2 " please read /usr/share/doc/httpd-2.0.40/migration.html"
failure "Apache 1.3 config directives test"
echo
exit 1
fi
}

# The semantics of these two functions differ from the way apachectl does
# things -- attempting to start while running is a failure, and shutdown
# when not running is also a failure. So we just do it the way init scripts
# are expected to behave here.
start() {
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
check13 || exit 1
daemon $httpd $OPTIONS
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
killproc $httpd
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd /var/run/httpd.pid
}
reload() {
echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
check13 || exit 1
killproc $httpd -HUP
RETVAL=$?
echo
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status $httpd
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f /var/run/httpd.pid ] ; then
stop
start
fi
;;
reload)
reload
;;
graceful|help|configtest|fullstatus)
$apachectl $@
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|condrestart|reload|status|fullstatus|graceful|help|configtest}"
exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

you can start apache telling which config to use with:

# /path/to/apache/bin/httpd -f /path/to/apache/conf/httpd.conf

Hi,

I'm somewhat new.... where do i change this path and how?

No, I mean, you issue that command (replacing the route to httpd), and apache should start.