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Could not start web service - details in error log 100002

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to start Web service on 10.5.8 Server, but it always fails with the message Try to refresh the view (192.168.0.254/Web). Report the problem to the administrator if it persists. (Could not start web service - details in error log.) 100002.


apachectl configtest turns up:


/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 73: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument

Syntax OK


Console turns up:


6/16/11 11:53:23 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

6/16/11 11:53:28 AM org.apache.httpd[6520] (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache2/error_log.

6/16/11 11:53:28 AM org.apache.httpd[6520] Unable to open logs

6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[6520]) Exited with exit code: 1

6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[6520]) Exited with exit code: 1

6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] Traceback (most recent call last):

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module>

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] run()

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 379, in run

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] runApp(config)

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 156, in run

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] self.preApplication()

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 203, in preApplication

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] self.config['prefix'], self.config['nodaemon'])

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 113, in startLogging

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] logFile = app.getLogFile(logfilename or 'twistd.log')

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 410, in getLogFile

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] os.path.dirname(logPath))

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py", line 113, in __init__

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] BaseLogFile.__init__(self, name, directory, defaultMode)

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py", line 26, in __init__

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] assert os.path.isdir(self.directory)

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] AssertionError

6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid[6521]) Exited with exit code: 1


Has anyone got any ideas what might be causing this? Or any more diagnosis I could try to get to the bottom of it?


Thanks in advance.


OSX Server-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Jun 16, 2011 3:57 AM

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User profile for user: Esther Mofet
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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 3:52 PM

I get the same ulimit warning when doing a sudo apachectl configtest and Apache is running on my end, so I think we could ignore that one for now. The console log says there's a problem opening /var/log/apache2/error_log -- what do you see at that location? For example:


ls -alh /var/log/apache2/error*


Should return all of your error logs. They should be owned by root:wheel and permissions should be 644.


Next, I would check the contents of the most recent error log to see if maybe there's some additional information in them. That might point us in a suitable direction.

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Esther Mofet
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Jun 16, 2011 3:52 PM in response to Jim Boree

I get the same ulimit warning when doing a sudo apachectl configtest and Apache is running on my end, so I think we could ignore that one for now. The console log says there's a problem opening /var/log/apache2/error_log -- what do you see at that location? For example:


ls -alh /var/log/apache2/error*


Should return all of your error logs. They should be owned by root:wheel and permissions should be 644.


Next, I would check the contents of the most recent error log to see if maybe there's some additional information in them. That might point us in a suitable direction.

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Jun 17, 2011 1:59 AM in response to Esther Mofet

Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it.


Terminal replies 'No such file or directory'. A manual search through /var/ shows no apache log folder. I took a screengrab if that helps:

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This is all from a fresh install by the way. Is it because it can't create a logfile that it refuses to start you think? Console is just turning over and constantly respawning the same error message as in the first post by the way.

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