Not to interrupt an on-going discussion, but I am interested in the user/group requirements for Apache as well.
I didn't see anywhere on the Apache website for installation steps that one needs to be root in order to start or run the Apache server, but I have heard it from others. So which way is it? I have been able to install and run Apache as a regular user with no root privileges, which is what confuses me when some say the user needs be root. Can anyone explain the requirements for me? Thanks much. Amalan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:43 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RE: failure notice Do you have the User and Group directives set in your httpd.conf file? Eg User wwwrun Group nogroup Apache will initially start as root user and bind to port 80, then switch to running as the specified user and group. The group and user need to be valid system accounts on your server. You will need to set the permissions of the files you want apache to serve as this user and group as well. I'm not sure about DAV, as I do not use this. The problem may also be with DAV user and group permissions as well. See if you can disable DAV and get Apache running first without it. Once you have apache running OK, enable the DAV module and see if that works ok then. HTH Keith On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, ws wrote: > To: users@httpd.apache.org > From: ws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aache 2.0.55 won't start > > Please help.Apache 2.0.55 on Solaris 2.9 won't start with > the following error: [Sat Apr 01 15:26:39 2006] [notice] > Digest: done [Sat Apr 01 15:26:39 2006] [info] > mod_unique_id: using ip addr 158.77.55.107 [Sat Apr 01 > 15:26:40 2006] [warn] pid file > /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean > shutdown of previous Apache run? [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 > 2006] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set > g roup id to Group 4294967295 [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] > [alert] (22)Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set group > id to Group 4294967295 [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [alert] > (22)Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set g roup id to > Group 4294967295 [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [alert] > (22)Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set g roup id to > Group 4294967295 [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [notice] > Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal > operations [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [info] Server built: > Nov 22 2005 20:33:01 [Sat Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [debug] > prefork.c(956): AcceptMutex: fcntl (default: fcntl) [Sat > Apr 01 15:26:40 2006] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: > setgid: unable to set group id to Group 4294967295 [Sat > Apr 01 15:26:41 2006] [alert] Child 5639 returned a Fatal > error... Apache i s exiting! > > Thank you --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
