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RAH

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[SOLVED] Apache

Hello,

I was following the wiki instructions to install Apache.  It's failing to start and doesn't seem to give an error.  How do I debug this?

Thanks.

Last edited by RAH (2008-07-15 01:01:01)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

cat /var/log/httpd/error_log

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

It's empty.

ralvez

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Have you checked /var/log/httpd/error_log and /var/log/everything.log ? That may give you an idea as to where the problem emanates.
Also the latest update of Apache uses the http user as opposed to nobody. You should be able to use nobody as far as I understand but check for that too.

Hope this helps.

R.

edit: Here are the details if you are interested:

==> New default DocumentRoot
[2008-07-14 09:25]
[2008-07-14 09:25]      Apache httpd uses /srv/http as default DocumentRoot.
[2008-07-14 09:25]      You can still use your current DocumentRoot
[2008-07-14 09:25]
[2008-07-14 09:25]      ==> New default user and group
[2008-07-14 09:25]
[2008-07-14 09:25]      Instead of "nobody" apache runs as user/group "http" by default now. You might
[2008-07-14 09:25]      want to adjust your httpd.conf according to this change. But you can still
[2008-07-14 09:25]      run httpd as nobody.

Last edited by ralvez (2008-07-14 15:24:24)

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Nothing is being written to /var/log/httpd/error_log or /var/log/everything.log .  Do I have to create the user/group http?

kclive18

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

In the wiki article on LAMP, it has a little note:

Note: New default user and group: Instead of group "nobody" apache now runs as user/group "http" by default. You might want to adjust your httpd.conf according to this change, though you may still run httpd as nobody.

You will have to adjust your httpd.conf first to have an "http" group, then add your user to it.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

My httpd.conf is already configured for http user and group since installation.  Do I have to add my user to the http group and if so how?

XFire

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Have you turned off the incoming connections option, if you have then it refuses to start.

to add yourself to the HTTP group

gpasswd -a USERNAME http

It requires root privileges to do the above.

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ralvez

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

I'm not sure is a good idea to add yourself to the http group. Ideally what we want is an unprivileged account, so I would use nobody if the worst comes to worst.

R.

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Where is the incoming connections option?  I didn't specifically disable that.

Also the http doesn't appear to exist as I can't add myself to it.

unknown group: http
gpasswd: Permission denied.

Should I be setting the user to nobody in httpd.conf and the group to what?

Pierre

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Are you using the latest filesystem package? (in other words: did you run pacman -Syu)

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Are you using the latest filesystem package? (in other words: did you run pacman -Syu)

Yes.

ralvez

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Re: [SOLVED] Apache

Try this:
add (if it does not exit) in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

User nobody
Group nobody

Then issue /etc/rc.d/httpd start on a console.

R.

edit: to make sure the use nobody exists (I believe it should be there) issue "id nobody"
You should get back something like this: uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)

Last edited by ralvez (2008-07-15 00:40:07)