jim writes: I also have encountered this problem and reported it as a bug. It took me quite some time finding out what exactly the problem is. I'll send you my /etc/init.d/2nd-apache from another machine.
The problem is that apache strarts, fork()s, does something, then a) reading its config and b) reading its configs from /etc/apache independent if you specify -f config or -d directory. Sorry but Apache really suxx. (Hi netgod..) > point your web browser to your own machine. This documentation states > that the default document root is set to /home/www-data/webspace. > This is in error. No such directory was created by the installation > process. Please report this as a bug. > I then created this directory and populated it with files including > index.html. The directory structure below > /home/www-data was chowned to user www-data group root. This has no > effect. So, after trying a number of obvious things, > I'm hoping that someone can tell me the secret to working this > distribution. The correct location is /var/www > And more broadly speaking, it seems that the documentation actually > needed to run apache was not included in the distribution. There is a apache-doc package containing the documentation. It has grown so large that it makes more sense creating second package out of them. > I'm still wading through the apache site for information, but, it > appears that this distribution is different in many ways than > the default apache distribution. I'm really disappointed in this > package maintainer's idea of user friendly. It's one thing to save time Please correspond to him directly, either on irc.debian.org #Debian or via mail e.g. through [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep your head up, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / verursacht durch kaputte Gatesoftware auf der CyberBox / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .