Re: [vox-tech] My Apache/HTTPD hangs

[Dale Bewley <MAPSdale@bewley.net>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Micah Cowan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:24:16PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > My Apache/HTTPD hangs when I boot, and thus my boot hangs.  It worked the
> > last time I booted (a few weeks ago).  I was on my home network at the time.
> > The only change is I'm on someone else's network (my client's).  My setup:
> 
> Very strange.  Apache httpd's startup should never, /ever/ hang.  The
> standard initial script calls "apachectl start", which will either
> start (and fork) or fail to start httpd, but should return control
> quickly.
> 
> Try (as root):
> 
> 1. Running "apachectl start" by hand (from the appropriate <apache
>    stuff>/bin directory).  If that hangs, that's where the problem is.

try apachectl configtest
also check dns settings

> 
> 2. If that went fine (didn't hang), try running the init script
>    (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd ?) by hand (again, with an argument of
>    start).  If that hangs where 1. didn't, you might wanna dig around
>    in there abit.
> 
> Did you mention your distro?  (I forget).
> 
> Micah
> 

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