apache web server not working.

Brother Michael · 08-16-2004, 01:49 PM

I am unable to transfer files to my apache directory via the network (using samba of course)

Says that I cannot copy these items to the destination drive because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination.

Also whenever I restart the apache web server using "/etc/init.d/apache restart" I get the follwing error:

Quote:

Reloading apache modulesstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 4829: No such process
No process in pidfile `/var/run/apache.pid' found running; none killed.
.

Why?

Mike

Donboy · 08-16-2004, 01:57 PM

Sounds like the files you're trying to copy from Windows have funky characters in the filename or maybe they are too long, as the error suggests.

The pid file is created when apache starts. When it stops, the pid file is blown away. For some reason, apahce was running but the pid file was gone, so when you shutdown apache, the pid file wasn't removed. I think if you stop and restart apahce a couple of times, it will stop showing that error.

Brother Michael · 08-16-2004, 02:21 PM

"index.html" too long?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Thank you though for explaining the pid file. I did complete reboot and apache started up without displaying any errors.

Mike

Brother Michael · 08-16-2004, 02:22 PM

Also currently all this work is being done on my iBook and then transferred to the Linux machine.

Mike

Donboy · 08-16-2004, 02:23 PM

Shouldn't need to do a complete system reboot.... just apachectl restart a couple of times should be enough.