On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kai Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:kai.jones@broome.wa.gov.au">kai.jones@broome.wa.gov.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Kingsley Haldane Bugarin OAM wrote:<br>> Hi all<br>><br>> I have a problem with a couple of Redhat 9 systems that I've been trying<br>> to fix for some time with no success.<br>><br>> What's the chance of a member, preferably living out my way
<br>> in the hills, being able to drop in and take care of this? I'll pay<br>> travelling and consulting time, though I don't have a huge budget.<br>><br>> On my personal system the password protected keys are in place but httpd
<br>> just fails to start. On the other system, which was a production<br>> server, I had to get rid of the password protected keys and httpd won't<br>> start anymore.<br>><br>> For someone who knows what they are doing it's probably a 10 minute
<br>> job, but I don't even know what's wrong and haven't been able to find<br>> anything useful in any forums.<br><br>Have you checked /var/log/messages for reasons why httpd won't start ?<br>what message do you get when you run "service httpd restart" ?
<br><br>Cheers<br>Kai<br></blockquote></div><br>
try apachectl configtest, from memory it gives better info on broken config options.<br>
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Carl G<br>