Trying to set-up a web server on ubuntu 5.10

jazee · 03-14-2006, 10:47 PM

Hi. I am trying to set-up an apache 2 server on a fresh copy of Ubuntu 5.10. The installation went fine but when I try to connect to the server from a browser localy I get an error. "The connection was refused when trying to connect to localhost"

Apache starts up just fine and everything I just can't figure out why I can't connect to the server. I have tried http://localhost http://127.0.0.1 http://hostname and nothing works.

Any ideas would be helpfull. Thanks

jazee · 03-14-2006, 11:24 PM

I have continued to search around the net and see if I can figure it out. Still no luck but I have found that scripts in the code point to the apache2 exc in /usr/sbin/apache2 well for some reason I don't have this file. Any ideas as to why not. I did install this from Synaptic as well is that helps.

jiml8 · 03-14-2006, 11:28 PM

Try referring to it by IP address, not localhost and not 127.0.0.1. Use the local IP address.

If that doesn't work then you'll have to look at your httpd.conf files to find and set the flag that specifies address ranges that are allowed to connect with your webserver.

jazee · 03-15-2006, 12:02 AM

I have looked for the httpd to be running using "pgrep httpd" and "ps -ef | grep httpd" and it does so up as if it is running. I have tryed to manually start apache threw "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" but I don't get a confermations. Not sure if I am to get one. I have also tryed to start it threw "apachectl start" and I get command doesn't exist errors.

jazee · 03-15-2006, 12:19 AM

Ok I have reinstalled apache2 and that seems to have fixed the /usr/sbin/apache2 missing problem. It seems to be up and running now hopefully. Thanks for taking the time to help.