On 2011-09-08, at 1:01 PM, Mark Montague wrote: > > Short form: from a terminal window, try running "httpd -t" and see if it > reports any error in your configuration files. Note that you might have > multiple versions of httpd on your system (see below) and try to invoke the > same version via the command line that you're trying to start via the Sharing > preference pane. > > Here's the longer response: > > > On September 8, 2011 12:49 , Norman Fournier <nor...@normanfournier.com> > wrote: >> This is the conf file supplied with osx 10.5. The previous webserver was >> running on osx 10.4. This version has changed the name of the "httpd" folder >> to "apache2". vhosts conf files are located in a nested folder inside >> "apache2" called "extra". > > I found this article, which says that Mac OS 10.5 ships with both Apache HTTP > Server 1.3 and 2.2: > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c6ws10.html > > Which one are you trying to run? It seems like in a clean installation, > Server Admin will default to 2.2, while if you upgraded the system from Mac > OS 10.4, it will default to 1.3. > > Note that there are different paths in each case -- including a different > path to the web server error log. See the table in the above article. > > Also, the latest version of Mac OS X is 10.7.1. You may want to try > upgrading to something newer than 10.5. Here is an article for 10.6, which > recommends the use of an Apple-provided script, translateApache.rb, to > convert from the old directory paths (10.4 and previous) to the newer ones > (10.5 and later): > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.6/en/wsd8cedb2f.html > > > Also, to try and convince you that if you have an error in your httpd > configuration files that you should see that error in your error log, on a > system freshly loaded with Mac OS 10.7.1, I went to the Sharing pane in > System Preferences and turned Web Sharing on. I then opened > http://127.0.0.1/ and got an "It works!" page from the web server running on > the local machine. So far, so good. > > I then ran "sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf" and added a line at the > beginning of the file: "This is an error". I then turned off Web Sharing via > System Preferences, and turned it back on again. When I did this, the status > indicator went from grey "Web Sharing: Off" to yelloe "Web Sharing > starting..." and then quickly back to grey "Web Sharing: off". It did *not* > turn to green "Web Sharing: started" as it did when I previously started it. > > I checked /var/log/apache2/error_log and was surprised to see that the web > server did not attempt to start. I'm guessing that there is an > Apple-specific startup script that attempts to verify the web server > configuration before trying to start the web server. > > I ran /Application/Utilities/Console.app and found the following in the > system log: > > 2011-09-08 2:56:35.512 PM org.apache.httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of > /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: > 2011-09-08 2:56:35.512 PM org.apache.httpd: Invalid command 'This', perhaps > misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration > 2011-09-08 2:56:35.525 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.apache.httpd[597]) Exited > with code: 1 > 2011-09-08 2:56:35.764 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.apache.httpd) Throttling > respawn: Will start in 10 seconds > > > Hopefully this helps more than my previous responses. > > -- > Mark Montague > m...@catseye.org
Thank you Mark, your suggestions and comments were extremely helpful. I searched in the system logs and found an error "no listening sockets available, shutting down." I googled and then included Listen 80 in my httpd.conf file and now the server is running properly. I know this seems like a simple thing in retrospect but in the heat of the moment it was not so obvious. Once again I appreciate all the time you spent to compose your emails and the thought you gave to your suggestions. You're a gentleman. Norman --- www: http://www.normanfournier.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com/normanfournierdotcom linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=18127460 youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/normanfournier --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
