[dontclickhere]

Ineed help!

I have Red Hat Pro Workstation with apache, but when i try to start apache, i get an error that a file is missing or blank, can anyone help me with this?

Also, when i try to update, it says my computer has to connect to a channel. Help Me!

[danleff]

What is the error message that you are getting?

[dontclickhere]

[charly@dhcppc1 charly]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 129 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt' does not exist or is empty
[FAILED]

[penguin]

Unless you need ssl support for your webserver just comment out that line in your httpd.conf.

If you need ssl and have your certificate then you need to place it in /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt or change your config file to point to where you already have it.

[dontclickhere]

um, i dont need SSL but apache was pre-installed, so im trying to start it. also i dont see where i typed in a command for SSL, that was the system on itself

[penguin]

relax a bit. No one said you typed in a command to start SSL. It is int he httpd.conf that is calling ssl.conf. You can do two things. Change the line in httpd.conf that says

Code:

#
# Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".
#
Include conf.d/*.conf

It is currently set to load all .conf files in the conf.d directory. Change it so it does not call all of them or just move ssl.conf from /etc/httpd/conf.d/ to another directory.

[penguin]

You can also save some typing when starting and stopping the server. Instead of

Code:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start 

use

Code:

apachectl start

to start

Code:

apachectl stop

to stop

Code:

apachectl restart

to restart

...etc type man apachectl for more uses

[dontclickhere]

the codes above do not work, im using red hat and you have to use the code i used.....anyone else have any ideas?

[penguin]

lol. It is a standard apache command. It works on all Linux OS's. btw. I did this on RH. 9.

type the following command into your terminal.

mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf /root

Then start apache.

[dontclickhere]

do ihave to log in as root to exicute that cammand?

[penguin]

log in as your normal user and su to root. You should never log in directly as root.

[penguin]

any luck with this?