Starting apache 2.2.8 server = no errors but does nothing

Hello,
I've installed apache 2.2.8 on Ubuntu and I have gotten as far as setting httpd.conf up as far as it won't throw any errors when I do a sudo httpd -k start.

The only thing, is that when I run sudo httpd -k start, nothing happens.

Where is the first place one would look to diagnose this?

Thanks,
Clem C

 

How did you install it ?

If you use apt-get to install,

sudo apt-get install apache2

Code (markup):

you should only have to use the following to start|stop|restart the server.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start|stop|restart

Code (markup):

 

On debian you can use the command apache2ctl start | stop etc...

 

Good news - The server actually starts w/ no problem.

but, when I do: sudo apachectl restart

I get:

httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Bad new is that I've configure my paths wrong so when I go to my ip: 208.78.101.123 I get this:

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

In the httpd.conf, my ServerRoot is set to this:

ServerRoot "/etc/httpd-2.2.8/"

and my virtualhost looks like this:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts/ehermann"
ServerName "www.ehermann.com"
ServerAlias "www.e-hermann.com"
ErrorLog logs/error_log
</VirtualHost>

The directory /www/vhosts/ehermann does exist and I have a simple index.html file in there.

 

getting closer - now the server starts but now I get a 404 when I visit the IP

Here's my setup so far:

ServerName www.ehermann.com

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts/ehermann"
   ServerName www.ehermann.com
   ServerAlias www.e-hermann.com
   ErrorLog logs/error_log
      <Directory "/www/vhosts/ehermann">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
      </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

When I fire up the server I get the 404:

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

 

Try setting the ServerName variable in your httpd.conf Try it as localhost or whatever you have your server named ...ns1 or domain.com...I had a similar issue at one point.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#servername

 

Here's the latest I'm trying

Listen 208.78.101.123:80

DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts"

ServerName www.ehermann.com

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts/ehermann"
   ServerName www.ehermann.com
   ServerAlias www.e-hermann.com
   ErrorLog logs/error_log
      <Directory "/www/vhosts/ehermann">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
      </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

I'm still getting a 404 after firing up the server