oookay, so, ive read the readme's for everything, ive configured and make'd everything, for apache. Im aware that apache comes with RedHat 9, but, since i like doing things myself, and it was out of date, ive installed the newest sub 2.xx version.

So, im a little confused as to how or whether i should get it to start with xinetd, whether its worth the effort or whether its a good idea, and how else would i make the server start if it was in standalone mode? the Documentation wasnt too clear about that.

Also, when i do httpd -k start nothing seems to happen. i get no output, and it looks like its not running (refusing connection attempts to localhost)

RedHat 9.

Fishy

If you are looking for a complete tutorial - I tend to use:
http://lamps.efactory.de/e-index.shtml

To start apache you need to run:
apachectl start

You may need to use the full path to the apachectl script.

ahh, fantastic tutorial! Im going through all the commands, one by one.. unforuntatley, im wating for a "make test" to finish make'ing but its going to fail because i havnt make'ed it yet!

I get this when i try to ./configure apache the second time around
configure: error: libjpeg.(a|so) not found.
what on earth does this mean?
BTW this is after adding the mysql, php and other crap to it

You can get libjpeg from:
http://www.ijg.org/
or
http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html...redhat-9&arch=

oh lord ....
now i compile it without gd, and the thing refuses to start..

[Thu Oct 9 13:27:33 2003] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start: httpd could not be started

Try running it in debud mode:
/path/to/httpd -X -e DEBUG

This may give you more of a clue.

it doesnt recognise those commands it just brings up a help screen with all the commands i can do

Are you sure you typed it correctly? Rember to change "/path/to/httpd" to the actual path to httpd.

yep, im certain. its going to the path where i compiled it.
surley if it was the wrong path id just get an error from bash?
hmm, it seems that whenever i edit the httpd.conf file, it dies on me, yet when i do a configcheck or whatever it is, it says the syntax is fine

okay, so now ive used the path to the binary in the apache folder rather than the one in init.d and that still says "-e is and invalid option" and so it still wont run.

Miscellaneous and Configuration

Apache

In order to make Apache start with mod_ssl automatically, the start script has to be modified. It is to be found at /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd. There, you have to search for the "start)" line and to modify it as follows:

start)
if [ $RUNNING -eq 1 ]; then
echo "$0 $ARG: httpd (pid $PID) already running"
continue
fi
#original:
#if $HTTPD ; then
#modified, -DSSL inserted:
if $HTTPD -DSSL; then
echo "$0 $ARG: httpd started"
else
echo "$0 $ARG: httpd could not be started"
ERROR=3
fi
;;

I think this is where my problem lies. it wont start SSL for some reason.. why might that be?

Have you installed ssl?

Have you pointed the file in init.d to the actual executeable httpd?

It is the executeable httpd you need to run with the options I specified.

yep, i tried running the executable (in /usr/local/apache or whatever it was) and it didnt recognise e. and also, when i tried to get the status it keeps saying lynx isnt installed :/

Sorry but what are you doing with lynx?

What version of apache do you have?