Apache won't start

[coolbeansdude51]

Hello All!

I am hoping this is just something simple so here is my problem. I can't start my apache server. I have restarted my computer a couple of times. There is an error message at start up and it says something about an error in the config file. So I looked in the config file on line 170 like it said and that is just a module line. SO I am confused and have no idea what is wrong.

I have attached my config file. Line number 170 is LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so

Thanks in advance for you help!

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-l.../msg00095.html
If you have a backup httpd.conf file, use it to overwrite the one you have or you can dump this one in there.

[coolbeansdude51]

Ok ... that worked but now I don't have the right permissions. THen when I go in to edit the permission s it says that they could not be determined.

Thanks for the help!

As root

chmod -R 775 /var/www/html

and

chown -R you or your group /var/www/html/

You may have to research this one a little more but you need to be one of the owners to make changes etc.

[coolbeansdude51]

I did that. That worked for my html files that I placed in my html directory but my cgi scripts still arn't working. I have set the permissions to 666.

Thanks for the help!

[kopete]

The script for executing .cgi is


ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI
Addhandler cgi-script .cgi
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>



By default /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin will be replaced by /var/www/cgi-bin.
So choosing directory is your choice.Give 755 file permissions to all the file in cgi-bin and also to the directory cgi-bin

[coolbeansdude51]

BLAM it works!

Thanks! You all are amazing.