Personal Web sharing does not start

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Personal Web sharing does not start

We've been running personal web sharing without problems on multiple macs until recently. For no reason we can see, on one of our mac minis, personal web sharing was turned off by the OS. When we enable it, it just hangs in starting mode, but never starts.

We have repaired permissions, but that didn't help.

Any suggestions

Posted on Aug 28, 2005 11:37 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 4, 2005 8:54 AM in response to Harvey Friedman1

Harvey--

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.

Have you tried looking in the Apache logs? They're at "/var/log/httpd", and you can use the Console application to look at them. Apache is very good about telling you if it can't start up.

You can also open a Terminal window and type the following command, followed by the "Enter" key:

/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest

That command will tell you if you have any syntax errors in the various config files:

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/username.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/seconduser.conf
Syntax OK

If you have any troubles figuring out the errors, post back with the messages from this config test.

HTH,

charlie

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Answer 2

Sep 17, 2005 8:31 AM in response to Charles Minow

Charlie

Your advice was perfect. We ran the test & located the error. It was something wrong with the httpd.conf file, which we use to change the default port number for web access.

Several ? characters slipped themselves in, we have no idea how, but after their removal, all worked well.

Thank yoo very much for responding to our post.
Have a great day.

Harvey

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Answer 3

Sep 17, 2005 9:11 AM in response to Harvey Friedman1

Harvey--

Glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for posting back to let me know...

charlie

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Answer 4

Sep 17, 2005 9:19 AM in response to Charles Minow

Our pleasure. Once again, thanks for helping.

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