DON'T sweat the newbie of it all.. learning is what we are all here for...
I am no expert, just a newbie trying to repay all the help I have received
around here too. So if you wind up being a local hero, you have to come back
here and help out too, OK? I have lurked around here for a while now, and i
NEVER EVER seen one person get pissed at someone who was trying to get it
right.
if the service fails at start, that just indicates it is not properly
configured. it also suggests but does not prove that it is installed.
When you say "linux tells you", is that info from, as root, in a text console
typing "ifconfig" (wotq= with out the quotes)?
have you used webmin? (in a browser "https://1227.0.0.1:10000";) to set up
Apache?
On Monday 30 July 2001 22:09, Jon Doe wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2001 09:52 pm, you wrote:
> > if I understand you, roadrunner is a cable modem, and you are assigned an
> > IP number when you boot? So it is a truly always on connection.
>
> I guess, all I really know is that my IP has always been the same. Linux
> would tell me my host name was woh-65-28-253-33, my IP address. Now about a
> week ago, RoadRunner changed something. Now when Linux boots it gives me
> dhcp-21-1 and the last number changes each boot. But its still the same IP
> address. I did reconfigure my connection and name my computer LinuxGeek, so
> now thats what it says when I boot, still the same IP though.
> Anywho, I installed Apache and it won't start. At boot httpd just fails. I
> went to the mandrake demo site to see if I could apache going but that was
> no help as I can't even start httpd.
> I am willing to learn anything...lol. I just don't want people getting
> pissed because I'm slow...lol.
