"httpd.conf" Error - any one know how to fix?

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"httpd.conf" Error - any one know how to fix?

Hi -

I'm trying to set up the development area. When I go to preferences to get to my computers website the following error shows up:

"Safari can’t open the page “http://10.0.1.4/” because Safari can’t connect to the server “10.0.1.4”.

So I opened monitor and did a config test and got an error message which I don't know how to fix:

agent-99:~ mac$ apachectl configtest

Syntax error on line 274 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

LogFormat takes 1-2 arguments, a log format string (see docs) and an optional format name

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been worKing on it all day and no luck! any advice would be appreciated!

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Aug 30, 2011 8:02 AM

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 8:29 AM in response to Lia_leaves

What does line 274 of httpd.conf say?

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Aug 30, 2011 8:39 AM in response to youbop

274 is blank. directly below it is:

275 # Note that from this point forward you must

specifically allow # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as

# you

might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it

# below.

#

# This should be

changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

#

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 8:45 AM in response to Lia_leaves

What's above it? Are the line breaks in your post showing as line breaks in the file?

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Aug 30, 2011 8:58 AM in response to youbop

yes, line breaks in post match line breaks in conf file

this is line 267 - 273

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order

deny,allow

Deny from all

</Directory>

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 9:03 AM in response to Lia_leaves

If the line breaks are in your conf file, that is probably your problem. If it starts with a #, then it will ignore anything else on that line. If you have lines in your conf file that say "might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it", there is no question you are going to get an error. How did these line breaks get into the conf file? I wouldn't trust the integrity of it at this time.

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Aug 30, 2011 9:16 AM in response to youbop

I don't know how the line breaks got there. So what would be the next step? start with a new httpd.conf file?

I just looked at the original file and it has correct line breaks. How would I move it?

thanks

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 9:41 AM in response to Lia_leaves

That would be best. If you have time machine set up, restore to a previous version. Since you don't know what happened to the file, you should assume lots more errors are in it. Even if you can get it up and running, there might be some bad configurations. It would be best to replace it with a known good conf file.

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Lia_leaves Author

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Aug 30, 2011 9:49 AM in response to youbop

No time machine. I'm working in TextWrangler, can I do a save as to the file from the "Original" folder into the "etc" folder?

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 10:13 AM in response to Lia_leaves

Original?

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Lia_leaves Author

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Aug 30, 2011 10:45 AM in response to youbop

Not sure what you're asking.

In the apache2 folder there is a folder "original" that has a version of the httpd.conf file without the line break problem.

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 11:06 AM in response to Lia_leaves

Use that one.

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Lia_leaves Author

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Aug 30, 2011 1:10 PM in response to youbop

That worked! thanks so much for your help!

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youbop

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Aug 30, 2011 2:02 PM in response to Lia_leaves

Your welcome.

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Aug 30, 2011 3:26 PM in response to youbop

The replacement httpd.conf from the "original" file does not contain the php line, so I added it at the bottom of the LoadModules and now PHP is running:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

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