I have installed Apache 2.046 on FC4-along with a host of modules for Perl and php.
When I try and start httpd i get the following error:


Starting httpd: [Mon Feb 27 11:57:46 2006] [warn] module perl_module is already loaded, skipping
[Mon Feb 27 11:57:46 2006] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping[Mon Feb 27 11:57:46 2006] [warn] module python_module is already loaded, skipping
[Mon Feb 27 11:57:46 2006] [warn] module ssl_module is already loaded, skipping
[Mon Feb 27 11:57:46 2006] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs



What could be causing this? I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the SSL--I don't need it as this is an internal server on our LAN.
Is there something else that i need to start up first?
TIA

The message showed that an Apache webserver (port 443 - https) has already started on your machine .You can check by this command :
ps -ef | grep httpd
**If it's true ( ie httpd is running) , you can stop it an start your httpd
killall -TERM httpd
<path to your httpd> start
**Otherwise , please tell me your result .

Hope it helps you .

Thanks Dude. The thing is, this all happened after I had sent a service httpd restart
The stop was OK but when it tried to restart, it gave me the above error. Running service httpd configtest did the same too.
I did some checking on the different modules and found that they were being loaded by thier own config files(if that makes sense) When I commented them out of the config, eg perl_module.conf the error didn't show up-however now i am getting errors about ssl.conf. I'll get back to you on the exact error in a while as I can't vnc into the machine just now.

If you installed apache from source , please be sure that you enable ssl on your configure :

$./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-so --enable-ssl --with-mpm=prefork --enable-modules=all --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-deflate

Thanks man--this is my error--I haven't checked my config yet--do you mean the httpd.conf file?

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 54 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLMutex', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

i get this each time and i think I'll get it for more commands to do with ssl so i will try your suggestion now.

Sorry--i didn't install from source--i used Yum.
is there a way to enable ssl after the fact?

I have not tried to installed from Yum or rpm yet . I'm so sory that I can not help you :-D .

Thanks dude-no worries--i think I'm getting closer.

I suggest you install (from source .tar.gz or .tar.bz2) openssl (version 0.9.x or higher) before install apache .

Followed are ssl-commands :
Create your keys and certificate
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 (enter you passwd)
$ openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.pem
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
$ openssl x509 -req -days 60 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
Create ssl.xxx dir and copy created keys and certificate above to it .
$ mkdir -p <your installed apache dir>/conf/ssl.crt
$ cp server.crt /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
$ mkdir -p <your installed apache dir>/conf/ssl.key
$ cp server.key <your installed apache dir>/conf/ssl.key/server.key
Modify your ssl.conf
# vi <your installed apache dir>/ssl.conf
Find line contains "ServerName" string and modify to
ServerName <your server name or IP>
Restart your httpd
# <path to your httpd>/httpd -k start -DSSL

Thanks nguyennh-I'll give it a go and let you know.

Okay--i worked out what i was doing wrong and had to re-evaluate what i needed.

I'm basically running OCS Inventory on Apache--it doesn't need SSL-it's all running on an internal network- so I took the SSL out of the equation, reloaded from scratch and Apache works like a dream now.

Thanks for your help.