Help setting up Apache 2.3

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 03:59 PM

Hey!

So I had a server running Debian testing and an update borked my Apache 2.0 server.

So after several hours of config edits, changes, and WTF?!?!'s I decided to remove it (Via Apt). I then downloaded the source from apache's site and did the whole ./configure, make, make test, make install, and that's all done now.

But I have no idea past this right now to get my server up and running. Here's my site

http://www.forkwhilefork.org

I have a 2wire router, setup so that the server has no firewall on it. There is no UFW installed on my Debian machine either. I'm running kernel 2.6.32 right now.

When I localhost on my machine it goes to the site, but when I enter the IP of the machine on a different PC on the same LAN, it won't show up. When navigated to on a machine not on the LAN, I get a 502.

Any ideas where to go? I'm stumped. Thanks

bathory · 02-02-2011, 04:26 PM

Hi and welcome to LQ,

Run:

Code:

netstat -tapl|grep httpd

to see if apache runs and listens on the local loopback interface or not.
You can also post httpd.conf, so we can take a look for errors

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 04:38 PM

This is the output of netstat

Code:

media@debian:~$ netstat -tapl|grep httpd
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
media@debian:~$ sudo netstat -tapl|grep httpd
[sudo] password for media: 
media@debian:~$

When I had been trying to purge the Apache install, I had removed the configs and all that (after an apt-get remove --purge apache2). I just did an updatedb && locate httpd.conf and the results were as follows

Code:

media@debian:~$ sudo updatedb
[sudo] password for media: 
media@debian:~$ locate httpd.conf
/etc/javascript-common/lighttpd.conf
/home/media/Desktop/httpd-2.3.10/docs/conf/httpd.conf.in
/home/media/Desktop/httpd-2.3.10/modules/lua/test/test_httpd.conf
media@debian:~$

Also, my envvars directory is empty.

bathory · 02-02-2011, 04:50 PM

Looks like apache is not running.
What options did you use for the ./configure script?

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 04:52 PM

I just cd'd to the directory and ran ./configure as it was without any additional options.

bathory · 02-02-2011, 05:03 PM

So apache should be installed under /usr/local/apache2 and the config file should be located in /usr/local/apache2/etc/httpd.conf
If it doesn't exist I guess there was something wrong in the installation.
Are you sure that ./configure, make and sudo make install, all finished without errors?

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 05:06 PM

Without any at all.

Before I compiled Apache that if I reinstalled through apt the configs would be back, but they're not, which was why I resorted to the source. I was hoping it would add them back. *sigh*

bathory · 02-02-2011, 05:26 PM

No errors? Then there should be a /usr/local/apache2 directory where apache is installed by default
I'm not a debian savvy, but I guess running:

Code:

sudo apt-get install apache2

will install apache along with its default config files.

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 05:32 PM

Done, but no dice. I've tried it before but I gave it another shot, here's the output.

Code:

media@debian:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2
[sudo] password for media: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,380 B of archives.
After this operation, 36.9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main apache2 i386 2.2.16-6 [1,380 B]
Fetched 1,380 B in 1s (1,084 B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package apache2.
(Reading database ... 188541 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking apache2 (from .../apache2_2.2.16-6_i386.deb) ...
Setting up apache2 (2.2.16-6) ...
media@debian:~$ sudo updatedb
[sudo] password for media: 
media@debian:~$ locate httpd.conf
/etc/javascript-common/lighttpd.conf
/home/media/Desktop/httpd-2.3.10/docs/conf/httpd.conf.in
/home/media/Desktop/httpd-2.3.10/modules/lua/test/test_httpd.conf
media@debian:~$ man apt
media@debian:~$ man apt-cache
media@debian:~$ locate envvars
/etc/apache2/envvars
/home/media/Desktop/httpd-2.3.10/support/envvars-std.in
/usr/share/apache2/build/envvars-std
media@debian:~$ ls /etc/apache2/envvars/
media@debian:~$

bathory · 02-02-2011, 05:59 PM

Note that the apache configuration file in debian, is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Acid_1 · 02-02-2011, 06:04 PM

Indeed it is, but here the are contents,

Code:

envvars  mods-available

and envvars is empty. My apache.conf and httpd.conf used to be in there.

Those were the file I was talking about that I removed in hopes that a reinstall would replace them.

bathory · 02-02-2011, 06:15 PM

As I told you I don't use debian, but after a little searching I found this post, that could be helpful

Regards