hello

i have this problem in my server when i try to restart or start apache server

httpd: bad user name ********* ( site user name )
/usr/sbin/httpd restart: httpd could not be started

and my clinets are like this one :angry:

pleaaaaase help

Does that user exist on your server? Can you su to that user?

thanks for you reply ;)

i have more than 120 users on my server
and when i delet the ******** user info from httpd.conf

it shoes the same error but for other user on the server

i am waitting

:eek:

If you have a backup copy of your httpd.conf file, stick it right in and set the permissions.

Ya, usaully one little error on the httod.conf file trashes the whole apache.

Posting your httod.conf file might help.

thank ...

this is an user info from the httpd.conf file :

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
ServerAlias www.site.com site.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@site.com
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/site.com-bytes_log
User sacnet
Group sacnet
ServerName www.site.com
CustomLog domlogs/site.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

don't you see that it is soooooooo normal !!! :confused:

so why that error ??? ! :bawling:

Have you verified that the user AND group, sacnet, exist on your system?

Peter

the :
User sacnet
Group sacnet

are exist on the server ...

do you have SuExec enabled? if so, try disabling it and test what it happen.

ok
i am going to try this and i'll post the results .

thanks for your help :blush:

elio

ok :)

thanks alot My Brothers
and God Bless you all

but when i started my apache server i have got this warn :

Warning: User directive in <VirtualHost> requires SUEXEC wrapper.
Warning: Group directive in <VirtualHost> requires SUEXEC wrapper.
Warning: User directive in <VirtualHost> requires SUEXEC wrapper.
Warning: Group directive in <VirtualHost> requires SUEXEC wrapper.

so does that mean an error ?

If you wont use SuExec delete
User xxx
Group xxx

from your <virtualhost> entries to take a ride of that error message.