I had received some tutelage via an earlier reply toa couple of lines which I adjusted, and this post’s subject was part of the return after trying to start Apache. I have searched a decent amount and can’t find what the answer is, but I must be honest that I’ve not delved into the Documentation either, mostly due to no time to relax and deal with my intermittent Dyslexia. Just today I swore a “9” on my own published (Musical diagram) was a “6” and told the person I was involved that my diagram was a typo, then after looking twice more discovered I had been looking at the “6” as an inverted “9”. I couldn’t believe it!
Anyhow, here’s my current failure message:
linux-2u6o:~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 60 of /etc/apache2/default-server.conf:
ScriptAlias takes two arguments, a fakename and a realname
The command line was:
/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Here’s the file: default-server.conf (line 60 asterisk’d since bold or text color wanted to insert html tags into the post) for analyisis, and I’m sorry that I don’t know how to write the correct info there. I’ve not had to since I did my very first Linux machine in '08:
Global configuration that will be applicable for all virtual hosts, unless
deleted here, or overriden elswhere.
DocumentRoot “/srv/www/htdocs”
Configure the DocumentRoot
<Directory “/srv/www/htdocs”>
# Possible values for the Options directive are “None”, “All”,
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that “MultiViews” must be named explicitly — “Options All”
# doesn’t give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
Options None
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be “All”, “None”, or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
AllowOverride None
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Aliases: aliases can be added as needed (with no limit). The format is
Alias fakename realname
Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
require it to be present in the URL. So “/icons” isn’t aliased in this
example, only “/icons/”. If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the
realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the
trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.
We include the /icons/ alias for FancyIndexed directory listings. If you
do not use FancyIndexing, you may comment this out.
Alias /icons/ “/usr/share/apache2/icons/”
<Directory “/usr/share/apache2/icons”>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
The same rules about trailing “/” apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
Alias.
ScriptAlias /srv/wwwcgi-bin/****
“/srv/www/cgi-bin” should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
<Directory “/srv/www/cgi-bin”>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user’s home
directory if a ~user request is received.
To disable it, simply remove userdir from the list of modules in APACHE_MODULES
in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
# Note that the name of the user directory ("public_html") cannot simply be # changed here, since it is a compile time setting. The apache package # would have to be rebuilt. You could work around by deleting # /usr/sbin/suexec, but then all scripts from the directories would be # executed with the UID of the webserver. UserDir public_html # The actual configuration of the directory is in # /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf. Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
Include all *.conf files from /etc/apache2/conf.d/.
This is mostly meant as a place for other RPM packages to drop in their
configuration snippet.
You can comment this out here if you want those bits include only in a
certain virtual host, but not here.
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf
The manual… if it is installed (’?’ means it won’t complain)
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-manual?conf
ServerName 192.168.1.26
ServerAdmin admin@craigtarwater.com
At least now I must be getting close…
Regards, tarzy!