Do you have any include statements in your httpd.conf such as include conf/*.conf or vhosts.d/*.conf ? If so, you’ll need to make sure there aren’t any syntax errors in those files as well.
Also, make sure that apache is using the same configuration file you are actually editing by doing the following: /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd –t –d $(Path_to_httpd.conf) Substitute $(Path_to_httpd.conf) with the full path and name of where your httpd.conf is located. For example: If your httpd binary is located at /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd And Your httpd.conf is located at /usr/apache2/conf/httpd.conf Then your statement would look like this /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd –t –d usr/apache2/conf/httpd.conf The –t switch does a syntax check on your file without actually starting apache. When you are ready to start it you can do so with the same command but just remove the –t switch. From: Tapan Maheshwari [mailto:tapan...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 2:41 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] Unable to start HTTPD , apache web server Hi, Thanks for replying The first line of httpd.conf is ServerRoot "/usr/apache2" I dont see any error in this line Thanks --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Voellinger, Sandy <sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz> wrote: From: Voellinger, Sandy <sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz> Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] Unable to start HTTPD , apache web server To: "'users@httpd.apache.org'" <users@httpd.apache.org> Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 2:45 PM Edit your httpd.conf – the first line has a syntax error that’s causing it to fail. It looks like you have a left parenthesis ( that doesn’t belong. Cheers- Sandy From: Tapan Maheshwari [mailto:tapan...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:07 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [us...@httpd] Unable to start HTTPD , apache web server Hi, I have downloaded & installed following apache binaries (x86/Solaris 9) from http://www.sunfreeware.com/, The Operating system is SunOS 5.9 apache-2.2.15-sol9-x86-local.gz expat-2.0.1-sol9-x86-local.gz libgcc-3.4.6-sol9-x86-local.gz libiconv-1.13.1-sol9-x86-local.gz openldap-2.4.16-sol9-x86-local.gz openssl-1.0.0-sol9-x86-local.gz sasl-2.1.21-sol9-x86-local.gz zlib-1.2.4-sol9-x86-local.gz all these were installed without any error, and also configured httpd.conf, but when i start httpserver by issuing command $ ./apachectl -k start . it gives me following error /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected i have also tried directly executing ./httpd but it gives the same error. Has anyone faced any such issue ? Thanks.
