httpd could not be started

[Luke Bakken]

> #/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start
> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
>
> Apache also won't start if I bypass the apachectl script and start
> it directly. However it doesn't report any errors either:

Some ideas, I may be off base here:

1. Is there anything being written to the error_log file?
2. Can you start Apache with the -F argument to make it stay in the
foreground? Any output there?

Luke