On September 8, 2011 12:49 , Norman Fournier <nor...@normanfournier.com>
wrote:
The sites are visible on other machines on the internal network using
bare ip and port numbers. I assume that means the web server is
working or it wouldnt be serving web page at all?
Yes, except below you say that "ps aux | grep httpd" does not return
anything and that there are no entries in the web server error log file
(and, I'm guessing no entries in the web server access log file). These
things imply that httpd is not running, but if the sites are visible
from other machines then that would imply that httpd is actually running
but that maybe you've got another set of configuration files and log
files somewhere. Maybe do a "ps aux | more" and check ALL processes to
see if there is ANYTHING that looks like it may be a web server
(particularly look for any processes owned by users "www", "apache", or
"nobody").
There are no errors or warnings in terminal when I start the
webserver, but it appears that it is not running as ps uax | grep
httpd does not return anything? I have used apachectl graceful and it
doesn't return the usual "apapche gracefully restarted". I then tried
the restarting using Sharing in system preferences pane and it tells
me web sharing is on.
I don't know if apachectl is an "Apple approved" way of doing things
under Mac OS X or not. Check Apple's documentation for more information
and also (hopefully) for troubleshooting steps.
Since you mention the "Sharing" system preferences pane, I'm assuming
this a regular Mac OS X machine, not Mac OS X Server.
Next, are any errors in your web server error log file? This is apparently
/private/var/log/apache2/error_log in your configuration.
There has been nothing written to the log files since the server crash 4 days
ago.
Then I suspect that either there is another error log file somewhere
else (one that is actually getting written to) or that you have another,
fundamental problem at a much higher level than the Apache HTTP Server
configuration file. The reason is because if there is an error in the
configuration file, httpd will (in my experience) write a message to the
error log informing you that it tried to start and that there was an
error in the configuration file.
So, if you know that httpd is not running (and no pages are being served
for any site, for any client on any network), and there is no other
error log file anywhere else, then I'd look at the installation of
Apache HTTP Server (and hence Mac OS X, since the two are bundled
together). You might have filesystem corruption, be missing key files,
or simply not doing things in the way Apple wants you to do them.
All else failing, you may want to set up another machine, do a fresh
load of Mac OS X on it, get httpd working, and then transfer the site
content from the old server to the new one, and configure the sites from
scratch (by hand) using the files on the old server as a guide. Be sure
to do this all according to the procedures outlined in the documentation
that Apple provides (go to http://support.apple.com/ and search for
"Apache" to get started).
If you do have an error in your httpd configuration, it could be in the file
you posted, but it could also be in any of those included files.
The include directives were all authored by apple except the include for
vhosts. The vhosts were authored by me. They were working in the previous
iteration of the webserver. Should I post a typical vhost file?
I would not expect it to be useful for you to post one of your typical
vhost files, since if there were an error in it, I'd expect to see an
error in the web server error log when you try to start the web server.
In addition to the ideas above, you may want to ask on the relevant
Apple mailing lists, since Apple has customized how Apache HTTP Server
is started and managed under Mac OS X. Good lists to try might be
web-...@lists.apple.com and macos-x-ser...@lists.apple.com
I hope this helps, at least a little.
--
Mark Montague
m...@catseye.org
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