Apache problem

[albi]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:56:05 +0900
Jiye Zeng <zeng at nies.go.jp> wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 without X. Since I intend to use the system
> as an internal server for our research group, I installed no package
> except for mod_php4-4.3.5_7,1 and mc-4.6.0_7. Apache-1.3.29_3 and a
> few other packages are installed as well as dependent packages of
> those two. The security level was set to 2 during installation. The
> problem is apache won't start by boot and can't be restarted by
> apachectl.

did you check the apache-logfiles in /var/log/ ?
if you don't have a valid hostname for apache to use it won't start,
that could be the case