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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:48:22 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] Apache 2 chaos
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From: Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com>
To: users@httpd.apache.org
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Yep. Thought I got it working again, but after serving up a page or to,
the server is now not responding. Port 80 is open, a connection is made,
but no response is received from the server. Browsers site there waiting
for an eternity.


GRRRR!!! If the designer wasn't so far away I would go and kick their
a**e.

Olly


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:r.d.wilkerson@gmail.com]=20
Sent: 18 July 2006 16:13
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2 chaos

At the risk of being too obvious, is the NameVirtualHosts directive
uncommented?  By default virtualhosts are not enabled - even if you
have added virtual host blocks...

On 7/18/06, Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com> wrote:
> What a day ! A clients web designer decided to make some changes to
the
> conf file on our windows 2003 based apache box. Nothing terrible
there,
> but when it didn't do what was wanted, and apache failed to load, they
> decided to start pulling files from the apache folder. When that
didn't
> work, they decided to reinstall apache. Finally, after a few hours
> poking, they decided to send a tacit email to me explaining that the
> server isn't working.
>
> Now, having uninstalled apache, removed all the apache folders and
their
> files, removed all the reg entries from the registry, I have installed
> v2.
>
> That's where things started getting really odd. Apache seemed to serve
> up pages from the default site, ie the one in httpd.conf which is
listed
> at the start of the httpd.conf file, before the virtualhost entries.
It
> seemed to totally ignore any virtualhost entries in the httpd. Any
> changes there were never actioned by apache, despite the APACHE -S
> saying the syntax was correct.
>
> So, I tried 2.2. This had exactly the same issue. Nothing in the
> virtualhost section was acted on.
>
> Stranger still, if I changed the default documentroot entry of the
> httpd.conf file and restarted apache, it had no effect. It's like
there
> was another httpd.conf file in use somewhere but there wasn't any on
the
> server outside of the apache folder.
>
> Then things got weirder still. If I stopped the apache service itself
> (using the service mmc snap-in in windows) it refused to start again.
It
> produced the standard popup explaining I should check the event log=
 or
> contact the manufacturer of the service. The event log didn't show any
> apache based errors, and I cant see anything in any of the files in
the
> /log folder of apache. Rebooting the server failed to get the apache
> service working. The only way to get the service up and working is to
> totally reinstall apache again, which works, but I'm still left with
the
> non-working virtualhost entries and the seemingly unread httpd.conf
> file.
>
> ARRGHH!!!!!
>
> Now, im no apache guru, but I have setup enough apache 1.3 and v2
boxes
> running windows to know how to setup an apache install to support
> several virtualhosts and all the gubbins that go with it. However, im
at
> a loss to explain what the h**l is happening now.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on these weird issues? Anyone know how I can
> even find out more info about what apache is or isn't reading from the
> httpd.conf file ?
>
> Olly
>
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