Problems with default apache configuration [SOLVED]

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andersas · Post by **andersas** » Sat May 09, 2009 7:38 pm

Hi

I'm about to create a small website, and would like to have Apache, PHP and MySQL
running on my laptop to test my scripts before uploading to the world wide web.

Installing PHP, MySQL and Apache seems to work without any problems,
however, when i run

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localhost ~# /etc/init.d/apache2 start ; echo $?

i get "1" as a response, indicating failure, and apache is nowhere to be found in the process list,
and nothing is listening on port 80.

I have not edited anything in any configuration file after the installation.
Adding entries to httpd.conf like DocumentRoot, Listen, ServerName etc does not solve the problem.
Neither does

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localhost ~# emerge --config [apache|mysql|php]

From all guides that I can find on the internet, Apache ought to be able to at least start
after a clean installation through emerge.

Does anyone have an idea what might be the cause of this problem?

Anders Søndergaard

Ch00k · Post by **Ch00k** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:12 pm

Does /var/log/messages or /var/log/httpd/error.log say anything when you attempt to start Apache?

andersas · Post by **andersas** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:35 pm

Ch00k wrote:Does /var/log/messages or /var/log/httpd/error.log say anything when you attempt to start Apache?

From /var/log/messages:

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May  9 22:29:15 localhost rc-scripts: WARNING:  netmount is scheduled to start when net.eth0 has started.
May  9 22:29:15 localhost rc-scripts: WARNING:  apache2 is scheduled to start when net.eth0 has started.

Note that I run on wireless, and eth0 is thus not started. However, it gives the same message when I
ifconfig eth0 up + ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.3.

There is no httpd directory, although apache2 does exist and contains an empty error log:

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(nothing is noted down when starting apache).

Sven Vermeulen · Post by **Sven Vermeulen** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:44 pm

In /etc/conf.d/rc, set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING to "lo" so that the net.eth0 script doesn't need to be up (it's the script which is checked, not the interface).

andersas · Post by **andersas** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:53 pm

Sven Vermeulen wrote:In /etc/conf.d/rc, set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING to "lo" so that the net.eth0 script doesn't need to be up (it's the script which is checked, not the interface).

rc had RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="no", setting it to "lo" and running the apache2 startup script yields

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localhost conf.d # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                       [ ok ]
 * Mounting network filesystems ...                                       [ ok ]
 * Starting apache2 ...
apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for localhost
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

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localhost ~# apache2ctl fullstatus

Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status

Apache (or httpd) is still not in the process list, but apache2ctl fullstatus no longer
tells me that Apache is not running. I cannot reach http://localhost/ from a browser.

andersas · Post by **andersas** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:58 pm

update:

After putting a ServerName into httpd.conf, Apache gave an error message
about it not being able to find an ip address of "localhost". After fixing my broken /etc/hosts
Apache runs without problems.

Thank you very much for the help! Apparantly, editing /etc/conf.d/rc did the trick.
It looks like I need to study the workings of the /etc/init.d & conf.d a little more careful.
(I come from Slackware land

Again, Thank you very much for your help!

Anders Søndergaard