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Title: httpd-e-smith & httpd fail to start
Post by: Andrew Hansen on May 20, 2002, 07:30:40 AM

G'day all,

Can anyone tell me just what these two services do and give me some reason why they might fail to start.  I have done a clean reinstall to try to fix this but the problem remains.

Thanks all,
Andrew.

Title: Re: httpd-e-smith & httpd fail to start
Post by: stephen noble on May 21, 2002, 07:55:07 AM

the web server and the admin web server ie for servermanager

i stopped having problems when i went from 64mb to 256mb ram

stephen noble
dungog.net/sme

Title: Re: httpd-e-smith & httpd fail to start
Post by: Andrew Hansen on May 21, 2002, 01:45:02 PM

Thanks for that Stephen.

I was pretty sure that was what those services did but I thought I'd better check because the interesting point is that the server manager (browser access) still works.  Optus won't let me run a web server anyway.

The logs show that apache has fallen over from time to time but restarts itself.  Does that suggest that even though these services fail to start at boot-up they can start up on their own later?

The system seems to be working fine so I'm not sure if I should be concerned or not.

Cheers,
Andrew.

Title: Re: httpd-e-smith & httpd fail to start
Post by: Jason on May 27, 2002, 05:00:51 PM

Andrew,

have experienced the same thing with failure to load at startup but both the web server and web admin interface work OK. By the way, you can run a web/mail/ftp/... server on Optus (they don't know about it) by using DNS2GO or another DDNS provider. I am running two domains for web/mail on Telstra Cable and it is great.

Cheers

Jason