Re: Apache fails to start under RH7.1

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Found the problem. Easy solution but I would never have guessed it.

Basically I removed my machine's host name and gave it the generic one 
(localhost). But this is just a hack since I figure it's not a good idea t 
all to use localhost as a host name for a machine that needs to be 
accessible on our LAN.

Don't know exactly why this was a problem though. Can anyone enlighten me?

Also, where is the hostname kept in RH7.1? I thought it was in 
/etc/sysconfig/network, but when I deleted the hostname line and rebooted my 
machine remembered it's old name . . .

Jc

>From: "Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>
>Reply-To: tlug@example.com
>To: tlug@example.com
>Subject: Apache fails to start under RH7.1
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 05:11:09 -0000
>
>I know this as a simple solution but I'm just not finding it.
>
>I try starting apache on my RH7.1 box and all I get is a message saying
>[FAILED]. Nothing in /var/log/httpd either.
>
>I've been following Johdn De Hoog's thread about problems with leafnode as
>they seem similar to mine, but I'm not quite there yet.
>
>I have noticed that netstat -A -l inet doesn't have an entry for httpd
>though. I assume this means there is a problem with my xinetd setup.
>
>I created my own conf file for httpd and put it in /etc/xinetd.d/ . It 
>looks
>like this
>
># default: on
>service httpd
>{
>        wait		= no
>	server		= /usr/sbin/httpd
>	disable		= no
>	socket_type	= stream
>	user		= root
>}
>
>
>I have also disabled ipchains, even though it was set to accept everything.
>And removed the hosts.deny file, added ALL: ALL to hosts.allow. But still
>httpd refuses to start.
>
>Is this an xinetd config problem? What did I miss?
>
>Jc
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