apache after crash

[Harvey]

okay guys power went out blah blah. Having trouble getting my webserver back up. When I do
apachectl start
it tells me that it has started okay, but it doesn't. ps -aux shows that the httpd instance I tried to run is notrunning, and the server isn't up. If I do apachectl stop
then it says that it's not running...

has anyone seen this before?

[tko fx]

Check to see if there is a PID file, I'm a newbie myself so I'm not sure if you have it setup to have one or not, but I'm just throwing out ideas so that you can possibly fix your problem.

[Harvey]

hey I got it working. The thing was I had to start it as root... so it's running as root and all the child processes are running as nobody.

in the config file it says
# ports < 1023, you will need httpd to be run as root initially.

but mine is running on port 8080, which is higher than 1023 right? so it should work as a non-root user? hrm. Maybe since it's the special proxy port it acts like it's just port 80 or something not sure.

Does anyone know? thanks http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Harvey]

hey I got it working. The thing was I had to start it as root... so it's running as root and all the child processes are running as nobody.

in the config file it says
# ports < 1023, you will need httpd to be run as root initially.

but mine is running on port 8080, which is higher than 1023 right? so it should work as a non-root user? hrm. Maybe since it's the special proxy port it acts like it's just port 80 or something not sure.

Does anyone know? thanks http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[goozey]

If you look at the process's running...you should be able to determine what user it's runing under...

TOP is your buddy.