Well all I know is I have had to put in a completely new Cygwin. After that Apache is working again. Needless to say I will not try running again as a service until I can find a foolproof way of installing it. One that works and allows Apache to keep working. Thanks Ivan. I'll just use it the way it is for now.
-- George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > http.log > > > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > > > Apachehttpd.log > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > Apache.log > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > fopen: Permission denied > > httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. > > > > Looks to me the change I made resulted in the loss of permissions. I > > have uninstalled and reinstalled and uninstalled and reinstalled and > > Apache. Still broke. > > Right -- these files aren't created as part of the Apache install. Did > you try "chmod a+rw /var/log/apache/*"? > > I suspect that what happened was: the files got created when you ran httpd > from the command line (with your userid as the owner); then, when you > installed it as a service, the logs didn't get re-created, and SYSTEM > couldn't write to them... > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
