Re: Need help on installation

[Robert A. M. <ro...@ma...>]

Sure.  This looks to me like either your httpd daemon isn't running or 
it's configured to run on some port other than port 80.

Here are some ideas.  Become root and execute strace -p <pid> where pid 
is the process number of one of your httpd processes (use ps to get a 
pid).  It should give you something like:

strace -p 23774
accept(16,  <unfinished ...>

You'll need to:
ctrl-c
to exit

This tells you that you do indeed have httpd that's waiting to accept a 
connection.
Next, look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for a line like:
# Port: The port to which the standalone server listens. For
# ports < 1023, you will need httpd to be run as root initially.
#
Port 80

If it is some other number then you need to use 
http://localhost:othernumber/
or change it to 80.  *80* requires that that the httpd be launched by 
root, as per the comment.)

Rob.
PS: I'd probably do these things in reverse order.  The strace just 
makes you feel good.  It doesn't diagnose much.


wayne wrote:

>Hi Dieter,
>I use to have "ServerName localhost.localdomain", but
>I still got the error from Netscape. Should I change it
>back to this or leave it as "ServerName localhost"?
>My /etc/hosts file has the enter for 127.0.0.1 as
>127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain      localhost
>
>I also tried to use this as a url
>http://localhost.localdomain/sql-ledger/admin.pl, but
>I still get the error
>"Netscape is unable to locate the server locallhost.localdomain".
>Another way I tried keying in the url was-
>"http://127.0.0.1/sql-ledger/admin.pl".
>The return error on this was slightly different.
>"Netscape's network connection was refuse by the server 127.0.0.1
>The server may not be accepting connection or may be busy."
>This seems to me that 127.0.0.1 is up and is configured ok.
>Can someone give me some reason why it wouldn't be
>accepting  a connection?
>Wayne
>
>Dieter Simader wrote:
>
>>Use the full name.
>>
>>ServerName  yourhost.domain.name
>>
>>Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
>>DWS Systems Inc.     Accounting Software       Fax: 478-5281
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>>
>>On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, wayne wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>If this message is not appropriate to the group let know.
>>>If anyone can point me to a group that deals with questions
>>>about apache I will be grateful. I thought I had my problem
>>>solved, but I don't.
>>>When I key in the url, http://localhost/sql-ledger/admin.pl,
>>>I still get the rror "Netscape is unable to locate the server
>>>localhost".
>>>In my httpd.conf I have the directive "ServerName localhost".
>>>I restarted my server and still get the same error. By-the-way,
>>>my httpd.conf file is stock except for the changes I made for
>>>sql-ledger.
>>>Wayne
>>>
>
>
>

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