When I just installed Fedora Core 5, I chose to install Apache with PHP and I also installed MySQL and PostGreSQL.

My question is how do I use them?
I've tried doing:

/sbin/service httpd start
and
/etc/init.d/httpd start
but they return [FAILED]

when I try status both say they are stopped.

obviously I have to initiate them somehow but I don't know how so can anyone help?

Thanks,
Phil

Anything showing in the logs ? if it tries to start and fails it should be logging a reason.

I believe Fedora puts your apache logs in /etc/httpd/logs look for the error log

I did the samething and apache failed to start.
I checked the logs folder but it was empty.

What else is there to do?

Actually, it's probably in /var/logs, not /etc.

My guess is that you are indeed trying to start httpd, but it is missing some initial configuration settings or something. Have you modified/created your httpd.conf?

Don't know if this post will help or not, but it appears that when the developers included Apache with FC5, they failed to give us an up-to-date httpd.conf file. If you try to start the service in a terminal and not remotely, it tells you that it cannot find certain modules. Check it out

Sorry to bump this old thread, but in searching the many threads on this subject, I've yet to find a solution. I have to start by saying I'm a Linux moron but I'm trying to learn. I thought it would be fun to try to build a simple web server. I'm using Fedora 5, and it's a fresh install. In fact it's 3 fresh installs trying to resolve this problem.

The problem being is that httpd won't start. service httpd start just returns failed. service httpd start -DEBUG returns errors in the httpd.conf file in the modules section where it would appear that about 8 of them are non-existant on my default/fresh install. Weird. These include mod_access.so, mod_auth.so, mod_auth_anon.so, and a few others. I tried commenting out these lines but when loading httpd I next get an error in mailman.conf which means I'm getting nowhere fast.

Oh, /var/log/httpd is completely empty, so that's no help. I've thought about trying to get a new install from apache.org but I have on idea how to install or complile it and I'd think the default one in the OS should work.

Anybody have a clue what I'm doing wrong here?

Joiry

When u installed FC5 there is a link that appears in your browser when you open one that says something about configuring it. That page has a lot of programs for you to configure including YUM. Maybe there is an update on yum that u can use and then be able to Start HTTPD.

By the way what command did u use to start up HTTPD?

@tuntsfaah:
Joiry mentioned the commands used, as far as I can tell...

Try turmimg SELinux off for a bit with

# setenforce 0

and see if it works.


If it does, theres a setting in the gnome security settings under the SELinus tap that lets you turm SELinux off for httpd

I skipped FC5 and just upgraded a server to FC6 and had much the same problem. Basically I had to disable loading some modules that have magically disappeared.

*sigh*

Yum search for mod_auth shows nothing, so I'm off to trying to find another way to rebuild it.

Try uninstalling with yum and then reinstall with yum