Apache 2.0.40 error and does not run

[Darin Perusich]

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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> 
> 
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-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com