On Monday 05 March 2007 10:26, Anoop kumar V wrote: > I think I figured out the exact problem (not the solution)... apache starts > fine when forced to start on the commandline, but fails to start as a > service. SO it is not a problem of the apachemonitor per se. > > It is wierd that something stops apache running as a service. Also it does > not write any logs whatsoever, to help troubleshooting! > What user is Apache running as when run as a service? It sounds like the user it runs as does not have perl in it's path or does not have permission to read the perl path location.
To check path make sure the the perl is added to the path globally and not just for a user. For the second look at perls installation path and make sure that Apache's runas user is able to read the files from there. > Anoop > > On 3/4/07, Anoop kumar V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion Randy - but perl had always been in my path. > > I think that gets set when perl is installed. > > > > I think I will have to do a manual start / ^C the apache process until > > the monitor gets fixed. > > > > Thanks, > > Anoop > > > > On 3/3/07, Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Anoop kumar V wrote: > > > > Yes - I checked that - without mod_perl enabled, with a vanilla > > > > Apache installation (and with weblogic module enabled), the > > > > apachemonitor > > > > > > starts > > > > > > > and stops apache fine. With the mod_perl line: (LoadModule .....) in > > > > httpd.conf it errors out. If I remove the line it again works > > > > > > flawlessly. > > > > > > > The thing is this breaks in both the apache versions I mentioned > > > > > > above... > > > > > > > I am the administrator on this Win XP machine. > > > > > > > > Its not a big issue - since apache runs fine from the commandline, > > > > but > > > > > > it > > > > > > > would have been great if I could manage from the monitor, else I need > > > > > > to > > > > > > > keep cmd prompt window open just for this thing... > > > > > > The only thing I can suggest checking is that you have a > > > LoadFile "C:/Path/to/Perl/bin/perl58.dll" > > > before loading mod_perl.so, in case Perl isn't in > > > your PATH environment variable. > > > > > > -- > > > best regards, > > > Randy > > > > -- > > Thanks and best regards, > > Anoop
