Why wont this script run??

[Søren Neigaard]

Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> 
>> Benjamin Franz wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, S�ren Neigaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have made a diff on the original httpd.conf and my problematic
>>>> version, and attached it to this mail. I hope one of you guys can help
>>>> me out here, why wont apache start with this httpd.conf? Is it because
>>>> of the www user maybe (even though its a bit oftopic)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Look at your error log: /var/log/httpd/error_log (unless you have 
>>> changed it to somewhere else).
>>>
>>> It will very likely have an error message specifying the problem.
>>
>>
>> It says nothing in that logfile, i think that the script runs some 
>> check on my httpd.conf file before it even attempts to start httpd, 
>> and this check fails, even though httpd likes my httpd.conf
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> You have a configuration error that is not a syntax error. Typically 
> I've found 'silent deaths' tend to be things like log files being placed 
> in directories that don't exist or permissions errors. Check that every 
> file/directory explicitly referenced in your configuration file actually 
> exists and has appropriate permissions. Don't just visually scan the 
> httpd.conf - actually 'cut and paste' the names in the file to something 
> like a 'ls' command to verify you haven't typoed a file/directory name.

Everything looks ok with ls, and permissions seems ok also. Also the 
difference between the "working" httpd.conf and the "not working" 
httpd.conf is only VirtualHosts...??


> Also, check /var/log/messages to find out if SELinux doesn't like 
> something you are doing.

Nothing here... :(

How can it be that httpd runs fine with my httpd.conf if i start it 
manually, and all VirtualHosts works perfectly, but the script refuses 
to start httpd?? Man im puzzled here.

/Søren