Hi,

I have Fedora Core 1 and installed Apache server form its instalation CDs. I try yo do

service http start

but

Starting httpd: [FAILED]

I don´t get any error message... anybody knows where to find them?

Thanks in advance

maybe you get an error because Apache is ALREADY running.

try this command "apachectl graceful"

if this command doesnt exist under you distribution i can't help you sorry..


Matteo

No, it is not the problem, I tried /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful , told me that httpd is not running and tried to start it... but no success, no error message again. I also tried service httpd restart and doesn´t stop anything (since is not runing).... thanks for your try anyway.

Any other idea?

Also try 'apachectl configtest' to see if your httpd.conf is syntacticly correct.

What does the apache error log say?

If you don't know where it is try
/var/log/apache*

or:

locate error_log

Nothing special. It gives three lines every time I try to start it:

[Thu May 13 21:39:11 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu May 13 22:07:27 2004] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Thu May 13 22:07:27 2004] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Thu May 13 22:07:28 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu May 13 22:07:31 2004] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Thu May 13 22:07:31 2004] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Thu May 13 22:07:32 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)


is any of these lines problematic?

Nope this lines ok for what I can see..

You might want to look into
/var/log/message
error logs doesn't contain nothing before the server is started..

No more information than the command line in /var/log/messages

May 15 13:23:08 gandalf httpd: httpd startup failed


My system seems a little bit inexpresive. Isn´t it there any oher log or something?. Thanks for your replys... :-(

Don't know if this is any help but I just had the same problem on a Debian Testing machine, I fixed it by upgrading php4 to the latest version.

Good luck!

did you compile anything into apache. From source, what distro are you using.

More importantly, have you edited you conf file? if so post some of it.

you may want to start it with

might give you more of an idea what going on


http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#loglevel

Thanks Jonasx

I found it was a problem of SSL configuration. Still wondering why Apache didn't dive any error on this. Anyway, is good to know there is a debug mode!!!. May be useful in the future.

Where did you find yer answer? I have the same issue after upgrading to Man 10 (At Work!). Worked great at home, no errors nothing, here it just wont start.

I don't see any ssl mods in the httpd2.conf

Help!!!

I was lucky, just edited a couple of lines in ssl.conf and worked.

# Server Private Key:
# If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this
# directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if
# you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure
# both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server-dsa.key


these lines where what I changed.

Maybe you should try:

httpd -e debug

to see what happens Apache tells..