Hi,

I got a server without cpanel.

Just downloaded Apache 2 from apache.org and installed it.

Now apache is running on the server.

I could get the apache default page with the IP of the server and also ps -aux shows

/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd

But i can't get the status of apache like

service httpd status | start | stop

Nothing works. It says

[root@host1 root]# service httpd restart
httpd: unrecognized service

Also how i make httpd auto start ? I checked the setup, can't find apache listed there.

Regards,

Yujin

You need to copy the httpd.init that lives in <apache source archive dir>/build/rpm/httpd.init to /etc/init.d/httpd. Once there you should edit the /etc/init.d/httpd and change any paths at the top to match your configuration. After that to make apache start on boot just do:

chkconfig --level 345 httpd on

This all assumes redhat. If you're on another distro the "chkconfig" command may vary.

Chris

Thanks nexcess.net for the reply.

I installed apache from


Unix Source: httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz [PGP] [MD5]

available at

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

http://www.signal42.com/mirrors/apache/httpd/httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz

Can't find httpd.init in it.

I tryed

[root@host1 /]# locate httpd.init
[root@host1 /]# find httpd.init
find: httpd.init: No such file or directory

but can't find the file.

OS is Fedora 1.0

Do i need to install from RPM ? If yes, where i can get RPM for Fedora ?

Regards,

Yujin

It's in there flashwebhost. If you 'cd' into httpd-2.0.49 it's in the "build/rpm" directory.

If you 'cd' into httpd-2.0.49 and type:


find . -name httpd.init


you'll see it.

Chris

Thanks nexcess.net, i got it working now.

Got few more problems. I can get status and stop httpd, when i start, getting following error.


[root@host1 etc]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: grep: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: No such file or directory
execvp: No such file or directory
[FAILED]



I solved it by


[root@host1 etc]# ln -s /usr/local/apache2/ httpd



Hope i am doing it correctly. Now the error is



[root@host1 etc]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: execvp: No such file or directory
[FAILED]




Think some configuration problem in /etc/init.d/httpd

My /etc/init.d/httpd file is

http://flashwebhost.com/httpd

Regards,

Yujin

Just symlink /usr/sbin/httpd to /usr/local/apache2/sbin/httpd and that should fix it. It looks like you updated the path to apachectl but not to the httpd server binary itself in the httpd init script.


ln -fs /usr/local/apache2/sbin/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd


Chris

Thanks a lot :-)

Got it working.....



ln -fs /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd