Strange.  What does running '/etc/init.d/httpd restart' do?  You will
also want to 'tail /var/log/httpd/error_log' and see if there are any
messages.

I've never had any problems with apache, except when I was tweaking the
conf file directly.

Michael


On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:12, Tyler Bushman wrote:
>       Have any of you newbies set up a webserver on your linux box yet?  I've
> tried reading the manuals for apache and it seems like I have it
> installed just fine.  Configuring it is another matter.  I try to look
> up http://localhost and it says "The connection was refused when
> attempting to contact localhost."  When I go to services I have httpd
> checked off to start when I boot up.  A weird thing though is that when
> I try to stop that it says "httpd failed. The error was: Stopping httpd:
> [FAILED]"  
>       Here is how I have it set up through the G/etc/httpdUI on redhat 8.0
>       
>       Main
>               server name: bushman.thebushmans.com (thebushmans.com is the domain
> name that I bought)
>               Available addresses
>                       All available addresses on port 80
>                       12.254.239.10080
>       Virtual Hosts
>               name/default virtual host
>               Address/default virtual host
>       Server
>               lock file:/var/lock/httpd.lock
>               PID file:/var/run/httpd.pid
>               core dump directory:/etc/httpd
>               User:apache
> ]             Group:apache/etc/httpd
>       Performance tuning is still set to defaults and I don't think anything
> is wrong there.
> 
> Any ideas guys?  I'm pretty lost as it is, but setting up a web server
> seems like it should be one of the fun things to do on linux.  Anyone
> want to donate some time to the meek and lowly - and stupid.  Serious,
> I'd be willing to do an oil change, car wash or whatever if someone
> would come over and help me out with this.  Maybe it is just something
> simple, but it doesn't seem like it.  
> 
> Thanks for at least letting me vent...
> 
> Tyler
>               
>                       
> -- Tyler Bushman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
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