Re: apache help

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Andrew Schaeffer wrote:
> That was the problem.. my /etc/hosts read like this
> 127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain  localhost
>
> it was just switched!
> thank you guys, Steve, Scott and Rick.  Thank you.
> You guys are the best.

Thanks.  It's strange because it _should_ work either way.  I suspect
there was an odd character in there or the items weren't separated
properly.

In fact, the way your file was set up is the "correct" way.  The format
of the file is supposed to be:

	address<blanks>fully-qualified-host-name<blanks>aliases

where <blanks> is any number of spaces or tabs.  E.g.

	127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

The format is in the "hosts(5)" man page ("man hosts").

Weird.  Ah, well, it works and that's what matters.

> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>
> > Andrew Schaeffer wrote:
> >
> > > Same thing happens, connection was refused when trying to connect to
> > > 127.0.0.1  error_log reports the same error.
> > >
> > > Tue Oct 29 16:02:55 2002] [alert] (22002)Name or service not known:
> > > mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of
> > > "localhost.localdomain"
> > > Configuration Failed
> >
> > First off, look at your /etc/hosts file and verify that there's a line
> > in there that reads:
> >
> > 	127.0.0.1	localhost	localhost.localdomain
> >
> > If not, add it.  That should solve _that_ problem.
> >
> >
> > > just so i know... whats the difference between
> > > /usr/sbin/apachectl start
> > > and
> > > service httpd start
> >
> > The first one starts the apache program using the apache startup
> > program, apachectl.  apachectl will report an error and not do anything
> > if you try to stop apache and it ISN'T running.  Ditto if you try to
> > start it and it's ALREADY running.  It's a more user-friendly program
> > in that if there's a problem, it tells you in English what that problem
> > is.
> >
> > The second one tries to start apache via brute force.  It simply
> > runs the actual apache daemon, httpd, and depends on it to report
> > whether it starts or not.  If it doesn't start, httpd returns a non-zero
> > result code and the error message shows up in the apache error_log file
> > and you have to go get the message.
> >
> > "service httpd start" does this via the /etc/rc.d/rc[1-6].d directory
> > tree that is executed when your system boots.  The actual file that
> > does the work is a shell script, /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.

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