Apachectl + Me = One Frusterated Geek

[Netdale]

Ok, apache loves my server, and everything works great - except one thing. The apache control script (%apache%/bin/apachectl). I start apache w/ apachectl startssl, and apache w/ ssl support loads and all is well. Yet when I try to restart or stop it reports this error:


root@Weavweb / # /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd started
root@Weavweb / # /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop: httpd (no pid file) not running

Any ideas........please. The truely odd thing is that the pid is created w/ a correct id # (I have it being placed in /var/log/httpd/httpd.pid)............

Any ideas would be awesome


Dale


One more thing, when I look at the pid its being created and owned by root (user & group), yet apache is setup to run on its own 'apache' username & group.....this is just getting frusterating......

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Aug 2 17:17 httpd.pid

[bodhidharma]

The PID gets written wherever httpd.conf says when you start the server. When you run apachectl stop, apachectl checks the HTTPD_PID variable which is set near the top of the apachectl script.
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[Netdale]

Thanks dude, just slipped my mind of accually looking in the script.......


Good call (Dale slaps himself)

Dale