starting apche service on start up

[DanGer]

Hello aaron,

Monday, November 1, 2004, 9:15:25 PM, you wrote:

> Using FreeBSD 4.10 release and confused about what to do with the
> startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh when installing the
> port.  The package on another machine works fine b/c it just has
> options to start and stop in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh.

> The port however has a totally different file asking to:

>   # Define these apache_* variables in one of these files:
>   # /etc/rc.conf
>   # /etc/rc.conf.local
>   # /etc/rc.conf.d/apache
>   #
>   # DO NOT CHANGE THESE DEFAULT VALUES HERE

>   apache_enable=${apache_enable-"NO"}
>   apache_flags=$(apache_flags-""}
>   apache_pidfile=${apache_pidfile-"/var/run/httpd.pid"}

> I do not have rc.conf.  What's the preferred way of starting
> apache on boot.  Why not just do it the same way as the package?

I really think, that you /etc/rc.conf have.

just type: echo "apache_eneble="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
and then /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start

this should works.

> Aaron

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