Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual website? (Or move /usr/local/www/foo to /usr/local/www/bar/ and have bar be my new website? I've seen this lynx error: Can't access startfile before and can't remeber what I'm doing wrong. thanks for some clues here, Take a look at the error log for apache, as I suspect the following: usually, apache wants to look in /usr/local/www/apache22/* for its information. If you have changed DocumentRoot, could you give us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ? PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the etc/rv.d/apache script... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual website? (Or move /usr/local/www/foo to /usr/local/www/bar/ and have bar be my new website? I've seen this lynx error: Can't access startfile before and can't remeber what I'm doing wrong. thanks for some clues here, Take a look at the error log for apache, as I suspect the following: usually, apache wants to look in /usr/local/www/apache22/* for its information. If you have changed DocumentRoot, could you give us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ? PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the etc/rv.d/apache script... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? Wow... I must really be loosing it... Forget I asked that last question. ;) Gary, if the problem persists after my previous suggestions, could you also include info from the error log? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual website? (Or move /usr/local/www/foo to /usr/local/www/bar/ and have bar be my new website? I've seen this lynx error: Can't access startfile before and can't remeber what I'm doing wrong. thanks for some clues here, Take a look at the error log for apache, as I suspect the following: usually, apache wants to look in /usr/local/www/apache22/* for its information. If you have changed DocumentRoot, could you give us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ? This is the first change in 18 months. The logs in /usr/local/www/apache22/ haven't been touched for months. I did remember to edit my named/* files, update the Date and restart. Then I restarted other apache related scripts and binaries. The next trick is a reboot. That won't tell me too much. PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the etc/rv.d/apache script... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? 22 gary -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual website? (Or move /usr/local/www/foo to /usr/local/www/bar/ and have bar be my new website? I've seen this lynx error: Can't access startfile before and can't remeber what I'm doing wrong. thanks for some clues here, Take a look at the error log for apache, as I suspect the following: usually, apache wants to look in /usr/local/www/apache22/* for its information. If you have changed DocumentRoot, could you give us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ? This is the first change in 18 months. The logs in /usr/local/www/apache22/ haven't been touched for months. I did remember to edit my named/* files, update the Date and restart. Then I restarted other apache related scripts and binaries. The next trick is a reboot. That won't tell me too much. ... especially since rebooting (ideally) shouldn't _fix_ apache22 problems.. If that works, it is only masking the real problem. Do you remember any other major changes to your system or apache22 since your last reboot or apache update? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:54:33PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual website? (Or move /usr/local/www/foo to /usr/local/www/bar/ and have bar be my new website? I've seen this lynx error: Can't access startfile before and can't remeber what I'm doing wrong. thanks for some clues here, Take a look at the error log for apache, as I suspect the following: usually, apache wants to look in /usr/local/www/apache22/* for its information. If you have changed DocumentRoot, could you give us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ? PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the etc/rv.d/apache script... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? Wow... I must really be loosing it... Forget I asked that last question. ;) Gary, if the problem persists after my previous suggestions, could you also include info from the error log? :-) [above]. no the reboot got things launched. my server is sage.thought.org, but the mail, web, and dns stuff are all in a jail, aristotle.thought.org, so my guess is that things were blocked at sage. i realize that's a really LAME excuse... :-) if ever i find somebody out here in the seattle area to help me, i'll buy a Dell and built ns1.thought.org as aristotle.thought.org; no mo' jails. meanwhile, if anybody else has some clues re wha' happened, Pulleze clue me in. there was nothing in the error log; it was dated 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 1024 Jan 13 2008 error 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 3584 Jan 13 2008 icons p0 16:29 Jail:: aristotle [5061] /usr/local/www/apache22 um, for apache22, the http.conf no longer has any of the virtual stuff. it's all in Include/httpd-local.conf. Meanwhile, this newest apache is getting to be a religion in its own right. like emacs vs vim/vi, etc, etc.. (*whew*) gary -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: :-) [above]. no the reboot got things launched. my server is sage.thought.org, but the mail, web, and dns stuff are all in a jail, aristotle.thought.org, so my guess is that things were blocked at sage. i realize that's a really LAME excuse... :-) I'm confused. Everything works now? if ever i find somebody out here in the seattle area to help me, i'll buy a Dell and built ns1.thought.org as aristotle.thought.org; no mo' jails. meanwhile, if anybody else has some clues re wha' happened, Pulleze clue me in. there was nothing in the error log; it was dated Perhaps the logs didn't rotate? When was the last time that the access log was 'touch'ed? 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 1024 Jan 13 2008 error 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 3584 Jan 13 2008 icons p0 16:29 Jail:: aristotle [5061] /usr/local/www/apache22 um, for apache22, the http.conf no longer has any of the virtual stuff. it's all in Include/httpd-local.conf. Meanwhile, this newest apache is getting to be a religion in its own right. like emacs vs vim/vi, etc, etc.. True, true. I don't _need_ vhosts on my FreeBSD box because it's overkill for what I use apache for. When I ran my site off of my own hardware, I did need vhosts -- I had forgotten this. Thanks for reminding me about how much I don't remember. ;) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 07:38:35PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: :-) [above]. no the reboot got things launched. my server is sage.thought.org, but the mail, web, and dns stuff are all in a jail, aristotle.thought.org, so my guess is that things were blocked at sage. i realize that's a really LAME excuse... :-) I'm confused. Everything works now? still checking, but seem to. i'll check my /var/log/httpd/* files next. That excuse was my best SWAG, and nothing more. sometimes, reinitializing everything, the OS turns out to be smarter than the rest of us... if ever i find somebody out here in the seattle area to help me, i'll buy a Dell and built ns1.thought.org as aristotle.thought.org; no mo' jails. meanwhile, if anybody else has some clues re wha' happened, Pulleze clue me in. there was nothing in the error log; it was dated Perhaps the logs didn't rotate? When was the last time that the access log was 'touch'ed? where do i check, glen? my favoite place to grep around is /var/logs, and the httpd-error.log has some potentially serious [warn]ing messages, but i'm not familiar with apache22. until my network began falling apart in dec, 2007, i was happy as a clam with apache13. jon horne installed 22 and things just-worked. can you or anybody else make sense of any of this:: [Sat Jun 27 15:50:12 2009] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Sat Jun 27 15:50:12 2009] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter [Sat Jun 27 15:50:13 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? [Sat Jun 27 15:50:14 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authent ication ... [Sat Jun 27 15:50:14 2009] [notice] Digest: done [Sat Jun 27 15:50:15 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL /0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operati ons [Sat Jun 27 15:51:13 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sat Jun 27 15:51:15 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? [Sat Jun 27 15:51:17 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? [Sat Jun 27 15:51:18 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authent ication ... [Sat Jun 27 15:51:18 2009] [notice] Digest: done [Sat Jun 27 15:51:19 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL /0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operati ons [Sat Jun 27 16:10:54 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sat Jun 27 16:13:52 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? [Sat Jun 27 16:13:54 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? [Sat Jun 27 16:13:56 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authent ication ... [Sat Jun 27 16:13:56 2009] [notice] Digest: done [Sat Jun 27 16:13:57 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL /0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations httpd-error.log: unmodified, readonly: line 48148 of 48148 [100%]. i dont think it is Urgent that this is fixed instantly-if-not-sooner but if time, once some network wizard can drop by, sure... 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 1024 Jan 13 2008 error 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 3584 Jan 13 2008 icons p0 16:29 Jail:: aristotle [5061] /usr/local/www/apache22 um, for apache22, the http.conf no longer has any of the virtual stuff. it's all in Include/httpd-local.conf. Meanwhile, this newest apache is getting to be a religion in its own right. like emacs vs vim/vi, etc, etc.. True, true. I don't _need_ vhosts on my FreeBSD box because it's overkill for what I use apache for. When I ran my site off of my own hardware, I did need vhosts -- I had forgotten this. Thanks for reminding me about how much I don't remember. ;) oh, man, same here; and i was doing this stuff on my own until november, '07 i'm adding a clue to my ~/.HowTo file. if httpd stuff w/ virt dirs fail: REBOOT. (*mumble*) -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 07:38:35PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: :-) [above]. no the reboot got things launched. my server is sage.thought.org, but the mail, web, and dns stuff are all in a jail, aristotle.thought.org, so my guess is that things were blocked at sage. i realize that's a really LAME excuse... :-) I'm confused. Everything works now? still checking, but seem to. i'll check my /var/log/httpd/* files next. That excuse was my best SWAG, and nothing more. sometimes, reinitializing everything, the OS turns out to be smarter than the rest of us... I think they call that 'Skynet'. ;) if ever i find somebody out here in the seattle area to help me, i'll buy a Dell and built ns1.thought.org as aristotle.thought.org; no mo' jails. meanwhile, if anybody else has some clues re wha' happened, Pulleze clue me in. there was nothing in the error log; it was dated Perhaps the logs didn't rotate? When was the last time that the access log was 'touch'ed? where do i check, glen? my favoite place to grep around is /var/logs, and the httpd-error.log has some potentially serious [warn]ing messages, but i'm not familiar with apache22. There should be a httpd-access.log -- 'ls -a' should show you the last time it was modified, but reading the tail of it should show the last time it was accepting input. until my network began falling apart in dec, 2007, i was happy as a clam with apache13. jon horne installed 22 and things just-worked. can you or anybody else make sense of any of this:: [Sat Jun 27 15:50:12 2009] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart SIGHUP on apache22 is normal, as it is indicating a forceful shutdown (restart). [Sat Jun 27 15:50:12 2009] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter This is a 'known issue'. Irrelevant to your problems, AFAICT. [Sat Jun 27 15:50:13 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `aristo tle.thought.org' does NOT match server name!? Edit either /etc/hosts or the vhost file to fix this -- whichever does not contain the `hostname` info. [snip] httpd-error.log: unmodified, readonly: line 48148 of 48148 [100%]. Try 'mv'ing httpd-error.log to httpd-error.log.bak and restarting apache22 again -- see if this error persists. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: apache22: Can't access startfile
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 07:23:33PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: ... especially since rebooting (ideally) shouldn't _fix_ apache22 problems.. If that works, it is only masking the real problem. Do you remember any other major changes to your system or apache22 since your last reboot or apache update? other that editing my php files, i touch the computer very little. the last thing i did was to upgrade the hp kayak to 7.2. but this was technically sage. the kayak is a SCSI box and dmesg spat out some unusual GEOM_LABEL strings, then rm'd several ufsid labels. [?] i don't want to break anything, nor have hardware problems since this is an Old, 1998 box. -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
