Im running Fedora Core 3 on my webserver. This is on a fresh install. Ran apachectl configtest and everything is fine. I ran apachectl start and no errors. I run apachectl stop i get:

httpd (no pid file) not running

When /etc/init.d/httpd start is ran i get
httpd: (FAILED)

is there some way of getting apache to start correctly?

Is apache running?
ps -ef | grep httpd

When run, it says that apache isnt running. Is there something else I can try?

What do you get from:
ps -ef | grep httpd

What errors show up in the apache error_log file?

It give me:

root 3319 1 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3320 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3321 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3322 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3323 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3324 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3325 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3326 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 3327 3319 0 13:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
root 3330 2800 0 13:48 tty1 grep httpd

I dont know what that really means. When I run apachectl start it tells me that it can find the servers fully qualified domain name so its using localhost.localdomain.

That means apache is running.

If you have a FQDN then specify it in your hosts file and in httpd.conf otherwise it should run fine anyway.

Can you please tell me what an FQDN is? I dont know exactly.

Thanks for helping me through this process!

You said it yourself earlier
FQDN=Fully Qualified Domain Name

So would I add a line for one of the ip addresses that i have in the hosts file? Lets say
192.168.2.200 iprats.com

?

Yes. Then set this in httpd.conf:
ServerName iprats.com

Wonderful! That works!!
Thanks alot for your help with this!!

With that said, I now have a new problem and it is with SSL and apache. Mod_ssl is installed. The problem that i have been running into with the problem earlier is that if I turn off encryption using Webmin on the virtual domain, then everything works fine without a ServerName present in httpd.conf. If I turn it on and restart apache, then apache wont start. If I put in a domain name in httpd.conf then it simply says httpd:failed.

When I setup a domain using virtualmin in Webmin, it says that SSL Enable is turned not available. do you know of what I can do to get https:// enabled on the site and still have apache run smoothly?

I have no idea what webmin is doing when you are changing these options.

Do you get any errors in your apache error_log file?

Where is the apache error log located?

It depends on your configuration. /var/log/httpd is a fairly standard location.