apachectl will not start

[adneg]

I Installed Httpd-2.0.40
all appeared to go fine but when I try to start apachectl i get the error message

usr/local/httpd-2.0.40/bin/httpd no such file or directory.

I have checked and it is quite right the directory is not there.

This is driving alittle crazy, anybody shed any light on this?

[Any]

Ermmm, obvious question but where did you install Apache?

[adneg]

I installed it in to the usr/local directory.

I did gzip -d httpd-2.0.40.tar.gz
tar xvf httpd-2.0.40.tar
./configure --prefix=usr/local/httpd-2.0.40
make
make install


I kept it as simple as possible

[adneg]

The usr/local/httpd-2.0.40/bin is there, but not usr/local/httpd-2.0.40/bin/httpd.

So during the istallation that directory is not make. I have reinstalled and still get the same problem so not quite sure what is going on here.

[Any]

Tried looking in all the directorys in httpd-2.0.40? Maybe in sbin(just a guess, im not at my Linux server)?

Or maybe install it to the default location to see if that makes a difference?

[sharth]

on debian, the deb installed daemon is at /usr/sbin/apache, so try /usr/local/sbin, or just do a find -name "apache"

[adneg]

usr/local/sbin is empty.

whats the best way to unistall this stuff and then I will try again.

I fully do not understand where this is going wrong.

[sharth]

in the source top level directory, run make uninstall or make clean, something along those lines.

[Any]

Ive just had a look on mine and the file i use to start Apache is apachectl not httpd. Its just in my /apache/bin direectory.

[adneg]

Any,

apachectl is in my bin directory the same as yours. When I run the command
/usr/local/httpd-2.0.44/bin apachectl start

then I get the error message /usr/local/httpd-2.0.44/bin/httpd is not a file or directory.

Something is pointing it there and the httpd directory is not there.

I have removed it again and now at the end of make install i get this message

MAKE[1]: ***[install-include] error 1


I get the feeling I will never get apache on this machine

[Any]

/usr/local/httpd-2.0.44/bin/apachectl start

Is what you need, was the space between bin/ and apachectl a typo?

[adneg]

it does not matter which way I do it i get the error message.

Now All I can think of is that something some where is pointing in the wrong place.

I shall keep looking

[adneg]

ok cracked a part of this.

I reinstalled but this time i did not set a prefix i just left it at its default settings and bingo it works.


I still think the other way does work but I have to find the file that sets all the configurations and point it in the right direction.

[vbp6us]

Probably cuz apache is one of the more used apps in Linux. I dont know if all .gzip or .tar files have predefined paths but apparently apache did.