Getting an Apache (httpd) server up and running (YDL 3.0.1)

[Eric D]

Well, I guess hotmail is being flakey I saw Bill's 2nd message to me in the 
archives at 16:30 and it hasn't shown up in my mailbox by 21:00.

I changed the ownership to apache:apache and it got rid of the one error 
(13). Files can now be served.

Now I'm still left with another. This error occurs after I "stop" or 
"restart" httpd using the "redhat-config-services" application (aka Service 
Configuration in GNOME) and prevents httpd from running until I restart the 
comptuer.

PS is this (Service Configuration) how you're supposed to start and stop 
httpd in YDL?).

[Mon Sep 27 21:06:52 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
authentication ...
[Mon Sep 27 21:06:52 2004] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Sep 27 21:06:53 2004] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create 
scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure)

I don't expect that it's the httpd.conf file since the server comes up quite 
nicely first time around. I try running the apachectl "script" (or whatever 
it is) from the terminal and it doesn't run. As far as I can tell it has all 
the right permissions to be an executable (when compared to other scripts 
that will run)?

Is apachectl causing the problems? Maybe not since httpd actually does 
execute and writes an error in the error_log file?

I have 128 MB of real RAM and a 384 MB swap disk and it's a bog-standard 
install of YDL on a Beige G3 Rev B, 32x CD-ROM (pull from a B&W) and 80 GB 
Western Digital IDE drive (8 MB cache) [brand spanking new].

Any ideas?

Sincerely, Eric.

>From: "Eric D" <hideme666 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List 
><yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: RE: Getting an Apache (httpd) server up and running (YDL 3.0.1)
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:56:07 -0400
>
>Thanks for the suggestion Bill. I'll try that when I get home (I'm sure 
>I've got lots of other questions... there's still that pesky (17) error but 
>I'll work on permissions first... I'm kind of enjoying playing around with 
>Linux).
>
>Can anyone tell me what the permissions are for their /var/www/html 
>directory? And for files contained therein if you're running httpd?
>
>Thanks, Eric.
>
>
>>From: "Longman, Bill" <longman at sharplabs.com>
>>Reply-To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List 
>><yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>To: "'Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List'" 
>><yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>Subject: RE: Getting an Apache (httpd) server up and running (YDL 3.0.1)
>>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:12:42 -0700
>>
>> > I've also put files in the /var/www/html directory that I
>> > ftped from my OS X
>> > server and they don't work (see below for changed permissions).
>> >
>> > /etc/httpd/logs/error_log says error (13) file permissions
>> > don't allow file
>> > to be served (I'm paraphrasing from memory here). This is
>> > AFTER I have run
>> > "chown -R root:root /var/www/html" (since the one file that works is
>> > root:root) and "chmod --reference=o.html other.html" on a few
>> > of them (I
>> > used --reference since o.html was working and I figured I
>> > could "borrow" the
>> > permissions from the one file of mine that worked).
>> >
>> > Come to think of it, is it possible that my "chown -R
>> > root:root /html" is
>> > what prevents the files from being served? Should the owner
>> > of var/www/html
>> > be something else (did that chown change the html directory?)?
>>
>>Bingo! Error 13 is *the* indicator that your permissions are wrong. You 
>>are
>>assuming that the process that needs to read the HTML files is a root
>>process. You can't assume that. Just run ps and see who owns the httpd 
>>pid.
>>That's the ID you need to change the HTML files to. It's probably either
>>apache or nobody. You can also find this information in the
>>/etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf file. There are lines for user and group of 
>>the
>>httpd process. That file is your friend.
>
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