apache startup question

[mogosjoh]

alright, so I am working on getting apache up and running on my system and I have 2 questions. I have already emerged and configured, and did rc-update add apache default, but upon boot I see:
starting apache... [!!]
with no error message
then, once booted, it appears that apache is not started (can't access web pages), so I then (as root) type 'apache' and it works ok. However, I will not leave it running this way because that is fundamentally dumb (running apache as root). Also, I have 2 NICs in my system, both getting IP's from DHCP, and I saw an earlier error with resolving the hostname (used to be defined in /etc/hostname, but now is not). How can I make apache happy with 2 NICs or set it up to only use 1 of them instead??

thanks,

-John

[mihochan]

I can't help with the second query but possibly the reason for the first is
that apache can't create or write to its log files when not run as root.

In my experience, this is often the problem behind the sort of symptoms you are describing.

Tom
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[mogosjoh]

ok, what's the solution?

[rizzo]

Note that apache doesn't RUN as root. It runs as "apache". It needs to be started as root though.

So:

[rac]

Can you try running the start-stop-daemon command that /etc/init.d/apache is running by hand, substituting out the '--quiet' option with "--verbose"? That should tell you in some more detail what's happening.
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[mogosjoh]

fixed it, had to chown /home/httpd to apache.. duh

[mihochan]

That is pretty much the sort of problem I had expected.

Apache didn't have access to the directories it needed to run.

Looks like you worked it out for yourself.
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