User profile for user: MurrayS
MurrayS Author
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Personal Web Sharing on 10.4.8

I have read other topics about this, but couldn't find any that help me.

My problem is this - when I click on Start (for Personal Web Sharing) in the Preferences app, the service never starts. When I open terminal and enter -

cd /etc/httpd/
ls -l httpd.conf

I get -
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38414 Nov 23 09:27 httpd.conf

When I enter apachectl start, I get this -

fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/httpd/error_log.
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

When I look at my account in PREFERENCES : Accounts, I see it as an Admin account.

What the heck is wrong? Any ideas?

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Murray

G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 23, 2006 9:29 AM

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User profile for user: Gnarlodious
Gnarlodious
User level: Level 4
3,313 points

Nov 29, 2006 9:33 AM in response to MurrayS

Paste this command in Terminal:

sudo apachectl configtest

If it says "Syntax OK" then there is nothing wrong with Apache.

Set the permissions on the error log file with this command:

sudo chmod 664 /private/var/log/httpd/error_log ; sudo chown root:wheel /private/var/log/httpd/error_log

Now try to start Apache:

sudo apachectl start

Open your Console.app and navigate to the server log for more information (/var/log/httpd/).
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User profile for user: Gnarlodious
Gnarlodious
User level: Level 4
3,313 points

Nov 29, 2006 2:07 PM in response to MurrayS

The easiest way is to use a text editor that supports UNIX linendings and writing a root owned file.

I just use Terminal, though. The built in "pico" editor is great for UNIX files. Try this command:

sudo pico /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

You will see the httpd file, then press ctl-x to quit the editor. If you edited the file ctl-x will not quit because it is asking if you want to save the file. There are some keyboard instructions on the bottom of the pico screen. Plenty of nano/pico instructions on the internet, it is a standard Linux editor. pico is essentially the same as nano editor.
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User profile for user: zehnkatzen
zehnkatzen
User level: Level 1
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Nov 29, 2006 2:26 PM in response to MurrayS

And, by the way, you're absolutely right about the
two versions of PHP - I upgraded to 5.0x, and that's
when the trouble started!


I made that exact mistake and that's exactly what happened to me too.

The following lines, which are found in the file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf had to be uncommented to make PHP work:

LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so
AddModule mod_php4.c

I don't know if recommenting them (putting a #) in front of them) will work for you; when I installed PHP 5 on top of PHP 4 I eventually wound up having to reinstall the OS ( I mean, there's a reason I don't tamper around with it much).

I may some time soon try upgrading, but for now I'll hang with PHP 4; it works.

SJK
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User profile for user: Kevin Evans
Kevin Evans
User level: Level 1
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Jan 26, 2007 5:06 PM in response to zehnkatzen

I see this in the error log:

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/faliol.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/kevinevans.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/netherscurial.conf
[Fri Jan 26 20:08:00 2007] [error] Cannot resolve host name (null) --- ignoring!
[Fri Jan 26 20:08:00 2007] [crit] (48)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80
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