httpd could not be started

[Frank Staals]

Greg Barniskis wrote:

> Frank Staals wrote:
>
>> Greg Barniskis wrote:
>>
>>> apache2_enable="YES"
>>>
>>> in your rc.conf?
>>>
>>> The need for this as well as the proper syntax should be noted in 
>>> the file /usr/ports/www/apache2/pkg-msg. For any other port you 
>>> install there's probably gold nuggets of info in its pkg-msg file. 
>>> This stuff displays during the make install, but then so does 
>>> several K of other info so it's not hard to miss these things.
>>>
>> In fact, it doesn't realy matter if you add apache_enable="YES" to 
>> rc.conf ( since het installed apache13 adding apache2_enable="YES" 
>> would be quite useless ... ) 
>
>
> Duh. Sorry, the later line about him trying apache22 got stuck in my 
> mind.
>
>> when you start it manually from commandline, adding it to rc.conf is 
>> only usefull when you want to start apache from boot, which can be 
>> quite usefull, but it can't be the reason why apache wouldn't start.
>
>
> Oh. I was sure that I'd read in a previous thread that the lack of an 
> enable flag would stop it from being started at all, but that must 
> have been for a different port or in a different context. Anyway, 
> thanks for the correction, always glad to have my misconceptions 
> destroyed.
>
>
If I recall correctly you can only start the services in /etc/rc.d/ if 
you have them in /etc/rc.conf with '/etc/rc.d/<service-name> start'.  ( 
But off-course there is a way to start them without adding them to 
rc.conf : '/etc/rc.d/<service-name> forcestart' ). You must have mixed 
up the two ( /etc/rc.d/ and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ )

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-Frank Staals