Error starting Apache

[harishbayyavarapu]

Hi,

Two days back I installed had setup subversion for my laptop from the following link
HOWTO: Setting Up Your Own SVN Server (Using Apache and mod_dav_svn) - Mark S. Kolich

I don't know where I messed up the apache server. Now I am unable to start the apache server. I get the following error message

/etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

Can some one help me out please.
Thanks in advance

[crazy01]

Have you checked the Apache logs?

they can be found in the following directory

/var/log/httpd/

I would look at the last few lines in the log files, that should shed some light on the issue.

Good Luck!!

[harishbayyavarapu]

This is the log:

[Sat Aug 07 17:57:46 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Aug 07 17:57:46 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Aug 07 17:57:46 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Aug 07 17:57:54 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Aug 07 17:57:54 2010] [warn] ./mod_dnssd.c: No services found to register
[Sat Aug 07 17:59:06 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:02 2010] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:02 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:02 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:02 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:06 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Aug 07 18:00:06 2010] [warn] ./mod_dnssd.c: No services found to register
[Sun Aug 08 03:18:02 2010] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
Syntax error on line 27 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf:
DAV not allowed here

And my subversion.conf has the following details. I don't know the log says DAV not allowed here and I am not sure what the error is

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so

#
# Example configuration to enable HTTP access for a directory
# containing Subversion repositories, "/var/www/svn".  Each repository
# must be both:
#
#   a) readable and writable by the 'apache' user, and
#
#   b) labelled with the 'http_sys_content_rw_t' context if using
#   SELinux
#

#
# To create a new repository "http://localhost/repos/stuff" using
# this configuration, run as root:
#
#   # cd /var/www/svn
#   # svnadmin create stuff   
#   # chown -R apache.apache stuff
#   # chcon -R -t http_sys_content_t stuff
#

<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /svn/repos

  # Limit write permission to list of valid users.
  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
     # Require SSL connection for password protection.
     SSLRequireSSL

     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "Authorization Realm"
     AuthUserFile /svn/repos/users
     Require valid-user
  </LimitExcept>
</Location>

[harishbayyavarapu]

Hi,

I resolved the issue and I can start the apache without any problem