Re: apache won't start, no error logs generated, user exists, permissions ok

["Christopher D. Palmer" <user_258@cox.net>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:03:19AM -0800, Martin Short wrote:

> I'm running OpenBSD 3.4 plain install and have transfered my httpd.conf from
> another 3.4 machine, along with all my htdocs data. Apache won't start. There
> are no error messages at all! Nothing in /var/www/logs/error_log or in
> /var/log/daemon. Here's what I get:
> 
> #apachectl start
> /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

--snip--

For what it's worth, as a test I set httpd_flags to
"-DSSL" in /etc/rc.conf.

Created a dummy "server.crt".
# touch /etc/ssl/server.crt

Created a dummy "server.key".
# touch /etc/ssl/private/server.key

Tried to start httpd:
# apachectl start
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

-- 
Christopher D. Palmer