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[users@httpd] apache problem
I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a apache problem I've been having. I had quite a bit of trouble switching from 1.3.something to 2.0.4, but I finally did and changed my document root to the correct directory, but when i went to restart httpd it wouldn't restart due to the fact that execvp was no known file or directory.
I'm kinda hoping that this is a fairly uncomplicated problem, as i am just the appointed IT guy for my small company. As a possibly related question, when I install a new version of apache, in a new directory different from where the only one was, do i need to change anything in the /etc/httpd/ or the /etc/xenitd.d files? Also, where would I put the execvp file if I had one?
Thank you for any help you may be able to give,
Dan
Re: [users@httpd] apache problem
Posted by Jacob Coby <jc...@listingbook.com>.
> > OS? What did you type in to start apache? What error messages (exact
> > copies please) were printed out? What is in the error_log? << The error
> message reads:
> [root@mail root]# service httpd start
> starting httpd: execvp: No such file or directory
> [FAILED]
> I hope that helps >>
yeah, it does. Sounds like the binary that the httpd startup script
executes no longer exists. Check out /etc/init.d/httpd and edit it as
appropriate.
> >
> > How did you upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0? << I got the tar.gz file from
apache
> i believe and installed, after unistalling 1.3 (although i should mention
> that my install wasn't totally successful b/c it told me a few components
> were still in use, even after stopping httpd). I then ran a % netstat -an
|
> grep LISTEN to make sure that it was listening to port 80, it was.>>
You'll need to kill old httpd processes before starting the new server. If
you installed 1.3 by tarball, make && make install, you can do this with:
kill `pidof /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd`
from there, you can `rm -rf /usr/local/apache` and get rid of everything
else. If you installed by rpm or some other packaging system, you may have
to install and then re-remove the package.
-Jacob
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Re: [users@httpd] apache problem
Posted by Dan Stephens <Da...@hotmail.com>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Coby" <jc...@listingbook.com>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] apache problem
> OS? What did you type in to start apache? What error messages (exact
> copies please) were printed out? What is in the error_log? << The error
message reads:
[root@mail root]# service httpd start
starting httpd: execvp: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
I hope that helps >>
>
> How did you upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0? << I got the tar.gz file from apache
i believe and installed, after unistalling 1.3 (although i should mention
that my install wasn't totally successful b/c it told me a few components
were still in use, even after stopping httpd). I then ran a % netstat -an |
grep LISTEN to make sure that it was listening to port 80, it was.>>
>
> execvp is a C-language function, not something you would typically see in
a
> command line environment in conjunction with an error about it being a
> missing file or directory.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Stephens" <Da...@hotmail.com>
> To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:28 AM
> Subject: [users@httpd] apache problem
>
>
> I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a apache
> problem I've been having. I had quite a bit of trouble switching from
> 1.3.something to 2.0.4, but I finally did and changed my document root to
> the correct directory, but when i went to restart httpd it wouldn't
restart
> due to the fact that execvp was no known file or directory.
> I'm kinda hoping that this is a fairly uncomplicated problem, as i am
> just the appointed IT guy for my small company. As a possibly related
> question, when I install a new version of apache, in a new directory
> different from where the only one was, do i need to change anything in the
> /etc/httpd/ or the /etc/xenitd.d files? Also, where would I put the execvp
> file if I had one?
> Thank you for any help you may be able to give,
> Dan
>
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] apache problem
Posted by Jacob Coby <jc...@listingbook.com>.
OS? What did you type in to start apache? What error messages (exact
copies please) were printed out? What is in the error_log?
How did you upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0?
execvp is a C-language function, not something you would typically see in a
command line environment in conjunction with an error about it being a
missing file or directory.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Stephens" <Da...@hotmail.com>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: [users@httpd] apache problem
I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a apache
problem I've been having. I had quite a bit of trouble switching from
1.3.something to 2.0.4, but I finally did and changed my document root to
the correct directory, but when i went to restart httpd it wouldn't restart
due to the fact that execvp was no known file or directory.
I'm kinda hoping that this is a fairly uncomplicated problem, as i am
just the appointed IT guy for my small company. As a possibly related
question, when I install a new version of apache, in a new directory
different from where the only one was, do i need to change anything in the
/etc/httpd/ or the /etc/xenitd.d files? Also, where would I put the execvp
file if I had one?
Thank you for any help you may be able to give,
Dan
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