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Binary is located in /usr/sbin/

When I ran strace -o httpdstart.txt /usr/bin/httpd -k start

It has the following lines to open the httpd.conf

stat("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35894, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3

So when loading manually via:

httpd -k start


/usr/bin/httpd -k start

httpd loads as expected with the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for configuration.

I also ran strace -o httpdstart.txt /etc/init.d/httpd -k start

i get:


So the usage says that I cannot use any option with httpd rc script.

So I ran strace -o httpdstart1.txt /etc/init.d/httpd start. It does not have trace of opening any httpd.conf file.

the httpd rc script in init.d has:


i.e. its pointing to the proper binary file.

httpd -V has the following output:

Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
Server built: Sep 13 2011 13:46:54
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:30
Server loaded: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.10
Compiled using: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Architecture: 64-bit
Server MPM: Prefork
threaded: no
forked: yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"

When loaded through rcscript, DocumentRoot doesn't get set and

ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html

happens(present in welcome.conf), and loads the Fedora Test Page. If I remove the welcome.conf. I will get a Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. What is it that is going wrong here?

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It looks to me like it's two different apaches. One was at /usr/bin/httpd and the other at /usr/sbin/httpd. Try manually starting the "sbin" one and see if the output of httpd -V is the same as when it starts up through the rc script.

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There is no httpd present in /usr/bin –  ThinkingMonkey Jan 13 '12 at 15:15
and yes that output is the same as /usr/sbin/httpd -V –  ThinkingMonkey Jan 13 '12 at 15:17
Hmm.. as a work around, could you use the '-f' argument to specify a config file in the /etc/init.d/httpd script? That script also makes mention of an alternate conf file located in /etc/sysconfig/httpd.. does it have anything to do with it? –  Safado Jan 13 '12 at 15:18
One more thing, I am trying to start httpd during the startup. –  ThinkingMonkey Jan 13 '12 at 15:29
My guess would be under that Start() function, like "LANG=$HTTPD_LANG daemon --pidfile=${pidfile} $httpd -f "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" $OPTIONS". I don't have an idle web server to test it on though, so I have no idea if it will work like I'm thinking it will. –  Safado Jan 13 '12 at 15:31

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