Maybe I'm thick but...

[steve s]

Hey all.

I know alot of people have been trying to help with this problem and my 
response may seem a little stupid but I think this could be of help. Before 
I start I am going to say this,  I had the EXACT same problem with APACHE.  
This was the first problem I encounterd using YDL after I installed it. I 
wanted to set up APACHE so I can do web developement at home rather than 
only at college and was snapping that it didnt work because I set up APACHE 
at college on a PC with Mandrake Linux. Anyway enough of a stupid newbie 
story to get it working I did absolutely nothing, I just gave up. But I did 
start using YUM and asking questions here to get my system updated and then 
one day after I finished downloading an update with YUM, I just tried to see 
if APACHE was working and opened a browser and typed localhost and boom the 
test page I put in the document root folder appeared! So I why not give it a 
try? I am absolutely sure I had the same problem and am also sure it had to 
have been one of the updates I downloaded using yum that made APACHE work.

Here is a copy of my yum.conf file if you want to give it a try:

START COPY

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/


[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/


[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/

STOP COPY

Hope it works for you even if it doesnt sound like I know what I am doing.
Take care!

>From: Sean Lewis <sean@mbd-ltd.co.uk>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: "'yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'" 
><yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: RE: Maybe I'm thick but...
>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:03:34 +0100
>
>Oops
>
>Stupid webmail thingy took me offlist, apologies to Bill and thanks for the
>response.
>
>To recap
>
>Bill wrote: (after running a grep command)
>
> > Thanks for sticking your head in, did what you recommended
> > and this is what
> > it said:
> >
> > root     13461   13418   0 19:34 pts/0     00:00:00 grep httpd
> >
> > Is that any use at all?
>
>Yeah, this at least tells you what you probably already know. Apache didn't
>start. Now you'll have to find out why it's not starting. Jump into the
>/var/log/httpd directory and examine the error_log file. If nothing looks
>fishy in there, then go to the /var/log directory and examine the boot.log
>file there. That might give you the error messages from httpd as it tries 
>to
>start.
>
>In response:
>
>I checked the error_log file (in /var/log/httpd) but it has 0 bytes of data
>in it, however the ssl_error_log has LOTS of data in it, timestamps
>correspond to when I restarted the server last night. Error as follows;
>
>[timestamp] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate
>(BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
>[timestamp] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)
>`localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server name!?
>
>My boot/log confirms that httpd is starting and doesnt throw up any errors.
>
>I'm kinda glad this has happened because I'm learning loads about linux
>fixing it, so thanks for all your help YDL people.
>
>:o)
>
>Sean
>
>
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