Apache 2.0.40 error and does not run

[S. Johnson]

Hi Darin,

Tell me more about automount.  This system is plagued with NFS 
problems.  If there's a better more reliable way to mount these volumes, 
please let me know!

Also, I am still looking for a solution to this problem with Apache not 
starting if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks,

Sean Johnson


At 09:06 09/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
>this isn't totally related to your apache problem but how you are mounting 
>your filesystems. have you thought about using automount to mount your nfs 
>volumes instead of hardmounting them via the fstab?
>
>using automount may be a little more complicated at first but it allows 
>for redundancy, generate less network traffic, and a more flexable setup. 
>depending what level your virtual host directories are at might eliminate 
>apache not being able to find them.
>
>S. Johnson wrote:
>>Hi Bob,
>>I think I talked with you earlier today on the phone about an IMAP 
>>problem.  Thanks
>>for getting back to me.  I am mounting the NFS file system using 
>>/etc/fstab and the
>>mount -a command.
>>Here's the /etc/fstab information for the NFS mounts:
>>#NFS Mounts
>>192.168.1.3:/nfs-srv/db         /db     nfs 
>>bg,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
>>192.168.1.3:/nfs-srv/isp        /isp    nfs 
>>bg,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
>>192.168.1.3:/nfs-srv/users      /users  nfs 
>>bg,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
>>This was working before.  I restarted Apache while the NFS mounts were 
>>not working
>>correctly and the httpd.conf file has virtual sites with directories in 
>>both /isp and /users
>>that it could not access and died with error complaining about not being 
>>able to find
>>those site.  When fixed the NFS problem and attempted to restart Apache 
>>after that,
>>I started to get the other error:
>>[Mon Sep 29 09:11:28 2003] [notice] Digest: generating secret for 
>>digest  authentication ...
>>Let me know if you need more information.
>>At 12:22 09/29/03 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmm... sounds to me like you have userid conflicts between the server 
>>>and the
>>>NFS server.  Make sure that you're not mounting the filesystem with a forced
>>>userid.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>--- "S. Johnson" <zatharus at ncn.net> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I have a RedHat 8.0 system using the RPM version of Apache
>>> > (httpd-2.0.40-11.7).
>>> > This server is connect via NFS to a fiber channel array where user
>>> > directories and site
>>> > information is stored.  Yesterday, when I restarted the server, the NFS
>>> > mounts were
>>> > not working correctly and Apache did not load because it could not 
>>> read all
>>> > the site
>>> > information that was configured in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.  After
>>> > fixing the NFS problem
>>> > so that the server could read the NFS mounts again, I restarted Apache
>>> > again and am
>>> > now getting this single line error in /var/log/httpd/error_log:
>>> >
>>> > [Mon Sep 29 09:11:28 2003] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
>>> > authentication ...
>>> >
>>> > This is the only thing logged each time I restart the server.  I have
>>> > researched this error
>>> > message and it is usually preceeded with a SIGTERM error in the previous
>>> > line, but I am
>>> > not getting that, just the single line each time I try to restart the 
>>> server.
>>> >
>>> > The Apache server starts and there is a single instance of the daemon
>>> > running, but the
>>> > server does not actually serve pages.
>>> >
>>> >  From reading in other news groups, the error has to do with .htaccess
>>> > directives for sites.
>>> >
>>> > There are several sites that use .htaccess on this server, but to my
>>> > knowledge, none of
>>> > those configurations have changed.
>>> >
>>> > Anyone seen anything like this or have a solution?  If you need any 
>>> further
>>> > information
>>> > about the system, please let me know.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > Sean Johnson
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
>--
>Darin Perusich
>Unix Systems Administrator
>Cognigen Corp.
>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>