Question

Complete newbie to the Unix and Apache world.

Just configured and installed Apache (successfully as far as I know) on a remote server, via X-Win32 SSH.

In the bin directory I see “httpd” listed.

To start the web server my provided instructions for the server state:

From your installation Apache directory type, ‘./bin/apachectl start’.

However, I get the following error (11-14 just showing it is there):

server.edu(11): ls
bin     cgi-bin conf    htdocs  icons   include libexec logs    man     proxy
server.edu(12): cd bin
server.edu(13): ls
ab              apxs            dbmmanage       htpasswd        logresolve
apachectl       checkgid        htdigest        httpd           rotatelogs
server.edu(14): cd ..
server.edu(15): ./bin/apachectl start
./bin/apachectl: apache/bin/httpd: not found
./bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

EDIT @h4b0

server.edu(98): pwd
/home/scf-25/gmcnulty/apache_1.3.42/apache

server.edu(99): ls -l bin/httpd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 gmcnulty     28880 May 24 22:12 bin/httpd

EDIT2 @h4b0

server.edu(102): ls
ab              apxs            dbmmanage       htpasswd        logresolve
apachectl       checkgid        htdigest        httpd           rotatelogs

server.edu(103): cd ../..

server.edu(104): ls
ABOUT_APACHE            NOTICE                  README                  cgi-bin                 htdocs
INSTALL                 NWGNUenvironment.inc    README-WIN.TXT          conf                    icons
LICENSE                 NWGNUhead.inc           README.configure        config.layout           logs
Makefile                NWGNUmakefile           WARNING-WIN.TXT         config.status           src
Makefile.tmpl           NWGNUtail.inc           apache                  configure

server.edu(105): ./apache/bin/apachectl start
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open error log file apache/apache/logs/error_log.
./apache/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Answer 1

• Check permissions for httpd
• Does apache/bin/httpd actually exist? Show pwd output from directory at line 11