Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "George Hester" Subject: Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed. Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:34:57 -0500 Organization: Home Lines: 157 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "George Hester" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: alb-24-195-115-198.nycap.rr.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i2M5fSBb019647 http.log fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. Apachehttpd.log fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. Apache.log fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. fopen: Permission denied httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache/error_log. Looks to me the change I made resulted in the loss of permissions. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and uninstalled and reinstalled and Apache. Still broke. -- George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0403212318510 DOT 26885 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu... > George, > > Use a little judgement. For example, I run httpd as "nobody" (a new user > I created for just that purpose). I also used the "-t manual" cygrunsrv > parameter, which means I have to start httpd manually (which suits me > fine). You can use "-t auto" instead if you want the service to be > started at boot (when, in fact, something like "cygrunsrv -S" does > happen). The reason you need "cygrunsrv -S" in the instructions is that > simply adding the service, even with "-t auto", won't start it in the > current session. > > As for your apache not working, see if there are any messages in > /var/log/httpd.log, /var/log/apache/error_log, and the Windows Event log. > It's likely either a permissions problem, or a problem with httpd.conf > syntax. > > As a datapoint, try removing the service and starting httpd from the > command line with the exact same flags as cygrunsrv starts it with (i.e., > "-F"). This will at least eliminate httpd.conf syntax (if the service > starts correctly). For a more definite experiment, try running it from a > system-owned shell. > Igor > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > Yes I do. > > > > So I followed the directions. It said "you must run httpd as root initially." > > To do this make a change so that I have, " User Guest." > > Of course no one in their right mind enables the Guest account > > but I went ahead and left my Guest account alone > > (the directions did not say to enable that account) and made the entry directed. > > > > Then the directions say, "To install and start the HTTP daemon as Windows service use > > this command: > > > > $ cygrunsrv -I httpd -d "CYGWIN httpd (apache)" -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -a "-F" > > $ cygrunsrv -S httpd " > > > > So I went ahead and did that. The Service is now in my Services applet set to start automatically at boot. > > This looks alittle suspicious to me since the $cygrunsrv -S httpd will NOT occur at boot > > but hey I'm just following the directions. > > > > I rebooted and the Apache server was not working. I had to fire up Cygwin off my desktop into > > the bash shell and > > $/usr/sbin/apachectl start to get the server running. > > > > Again this is not the normal way of a service at boot. It doesn't work. > > > > Any other suggestions to get the Apache server to start as a service in the normal way? > > > > > > George Hester > > __________________________________ > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > George, > > > > > > I'm sure you have a /usr/share/doc/Cygwin directory on your system. Look > > > for the file named apache-1.3.29-1.README in that directory. Judging by > > > your reply, you looked in /usr/share/doc, not in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. > > > Igor > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > > > > > I don't have a folder by that name. I have folder called > > > > apache-1.3.29-eapib and that's it. The puny Readme in that said nothing > > > > about running Apache as a service. Thanks anyway. > > > > > > > > George Hester > > > > __________________________________ > > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > > > George, > > > > > > > > > > Please (re)read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/apache-1.3.29-1.README, which is the > > > > > official documentation for apache on Cygwin. Any other occurrences of > > > > > "Cygwin" in the Apache documentation should be considered incidental, and > > > > > are subsumed by that README. > > > > > Igor > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Igor. Crap I messed up in my last post. Please do not read it. It > > > > > > will only upset you. > > > > > > > > > > > > I got the service to exist in the Services applet with: > > > > > > > > > > > > $cygrunsrv -I Apache -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto > > > > > > > > > > > > but it does not behave as a normal service. A normal service set to > > > > > > auto > > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/