Apache fails on boot in RH8
 

I'm currently trying to get Apache to load on boot in RH8. It is installed as a service, and is cheked for startup on boot.

-I tried doing this with Apache 2.0 which obviouslt came with RH8 when I installed it, but when that was failing

- I thought maybe I hadn't gotten a full install of it, so I downloaded and installed the latest release from apache.org. It does work, because I can manually start it in terminal, but it still fails on boot.

I am using this with dyndns.org, which I know is also working correctly as after I start httpd manually, I can go to nhti.homeip.net and I get the apache welcome page.

Since I am a nebie with Linux, please be very specific with commands/ paths, as some of the stuff that should be obvious to me (since I figured it out before), hasn't quite clicked fully in my brain yet.

What error messages you get? Look into /var/log/messages and see if you can find Apache fail messages.

The simpliest method to start it at boot: put the command you use to start Apache from console into /etc/rc.d/rc.local (at the end of the file).

Thank you for the prompt reply. I'll try your suggestion of putting the cmd in that file.

As for the error I'm getting, this is taken right from /var/log/messages:
Mar 7 14:47:08 x1-6-00-e0-18-3d-60-6c httpd: httpd startup failed

In the words of George Carlin: "Well isn't this being a little vague?"