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SxN
Joined: 17 Mar 2014
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Location: Canada
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 Posted: Tue 18 Mar '14 15:22 Post subject: [SOLVED] "apache failed to start" but it starts |
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Hi Experts,
On a newly installed Gentoo Linux I am trying to convince an Apache server to run (I think it's a 2.4, the latest and the greatest). Took me a while to tweak the configs to have it started (I'm an Apache novice), but it does. Not without hiccups: it reports "failed to start", although it is up and running.
I'm sure there is some issue, as it takes a rather long time to wake up, also because of the message reported, and then there is a behavioural issue described in my second post.
The logs are clean, except the main system log (ctrl+alt+f12) which is recording the "failed to start" report, without any other details.
Where should I look to fix this?
Thanks,
SxN
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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on the console do a syntax check
e.g.
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SxN
Joined: 17 Mar 2014
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Location: Canada
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Uninstalled the version suggested by Portage (Gentoo's package manager) and downloaded the latest from www.apache.org. 10 or 15 minutes later I was in business  )
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