Edit your httpd.conf - the first line has a syntax error that's causing it to fail. It looks like you have a left parenthesis ( that doesn't belong.
Cheers- Sandy From: Tapan Maheshwari [mailto:tapan...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:07 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [us...@httpd] Unable to start HTTPD , apache web server Hi, I have downloaded & installed following apache binaries (x86/Solaris 9) from http://www.sunfreeware.com/, The Operating system is SunOS 5.9 apache-2.2.15-sol9-x86-local.gz expat-2.0.1-sol9-x86-local.gz libgcc-3.4.6-sol9-x86-local.gz libiconv-1.13.1-sol9-x86-local.gz openldap-2.4.16-sol9-x86-local.gz openssl-1.0.0-sol9-x86-local.gz sasl-2.1.21-sol9-x86-local.gz zlib-1.2.4-sol9-x86-local.gz all these were installed without any error, and also configured httpd.conf, but when i start httpserver by issuing command $ ./apachectl -k start . it gives me following error /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected i have also tried directly executing ./httpd but it gives the same error. Has anyone faced any such issue ? Thanks.
