[plug] httpd fails to start

[Carl Gherardi]

On 10/19/05, Kai Jones <kai.jones at broome.wa.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Kingsley Haldane Bugarin OAM wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a problem with a couple of Redhat 9 systems that I've been trying
> > to fix for some time with no success.
> >
> > What's the chance of a member, preferably living out my way
> > in the hills, being able to drop in and take care of this? I'll pay
> > travelling and consulting time, though I don't have a huge budget.
> >
> > On my personal system the password protected keys are in place but httpd
> > just fails to start. On the other system, which was a production
> > server, I had to get rid of the password protected keys and httpd won't
> > start anymore.
> >
> > For someone who knows what they are doing it's probably a 10 minute
> > job, but I don't even know what's wrong and haven't been able to find
> > anything useful in any forums.
>
> Have you checked /var/log/messages for reasons why httpd won't start ?
> what message do you get when you run "service httpd restart" ?
>
> Cheers
> Kai
>

try apachectl configtest, from memory it gives better info on broken config
options.

Carl G
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