difference between httpd -k start and service httpd start?

**Eotnak** · 03-19-2007

I'm a Linux newbie just over a year old. I'm just starting to like how the hard work up front pays off once it's up and running.

anyway, apache 2.2.3-5 (this is what I get from rpm -q httpd...I assume that's the version number)

when I try to start httpd from GUI, it just hangs and never starts, no error message, no nothing. I try to start using "service httpd start" and it fails. Again, no error message. When I try to start using "httpd -k start" it starts immediately and all is well with my web sites.

there are entries added to log files when I do this:

error_log

[Mon Mar 19 15:42:32 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:15 2007] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:15 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:16 2007] [notice] mod_security/1.9.4 configured
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:17 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:17 2007] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:18 2007] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:18 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora) configured -- resuming normal operations

ssl_error_log

[Mon Mar 19 15:45:16 2007] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:16 2007] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server name!?
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:18 2007] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Mon Mar 19 15:45:18 2007] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server name!?

What's the difference between the two startup commands, and should I be worried about this? Thanks!

**Eotnak** · 03-19-2007

Here is my httpd.conf file:

Code:

ServerTokens OS

ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"

PidFile run/httpd.pid

Timeout 120

KeepAlive Off

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 15

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers       8
MinSpareServers    5
MaxSpareServers   20
ServerLimit      256
MaxClients       256
MaxRequestsPerChild  4000
</IfModule>

<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers         2
MaxClients         150
MinSpareThreads     25
MaxSpareThreads     75 
ThreadsPerChild     25
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

Listen 192.168.0.6:5200
Listen 192.168.0.6:5201
Listen 192.168.0.6:5202
Listen 192.168.0.6:5203
Listen 192.168.0.6:5204
Listen 192.168.0.6:5205

LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so
LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so
LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so
LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so
LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so
LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

Include conf.d/*.conf

User apache
Group apache

ServerAdmin admin@domain6.com

ServerName www3.domain6.com



UseCanonicalName Off

DocumentRoot "/www"

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory "/www">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir disable
</IfModule>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.html.var

AccessFileName .htaccess

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

TypesConfig /etc/mime.types

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
    MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
</IfModule>

HostnameLookups Off

ErrorLog logs/error_log

LogLevel warn

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

CustomLog logs/access_log combined

ServerSignature On

Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"

<Directory "/var/www/icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_dav_fs.c>
    # Location of the WebDAV lock database.
    DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb
</IfModule>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/www/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable

AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName index.html

IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw

LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW

ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8


AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

AddHandler type-map var

AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml


Alias /error/ "/www/error/"

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
<IfModule mod_include.c>
    <Directory "/var/www/error">
        AllowOverride None
        Options IncludesNoExec
        AddOutputFilter Includes html
        AddHandler type-map var
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        LanguagePriority en es de fr
        ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
    </Directory>


</IfModule>
</IfModule>

BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully

NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5200
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5201
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5202
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5203
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5204
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5205


<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5200>
    ServerName www.domain1.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain1.com
    ServerAlias domain1.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain1.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5201>
    ServerName www.domain2.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain2.com
    ServerAlias domain2.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain2.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5202>
    ServerName www.domain3.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain3.com
    ServerAlias domain3.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain3.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5203>
    ServerName www.domain4.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain4.com
    ServerAlias domain4.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain4.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5204>
    ServerName www.domain5.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain5.com
    ServerAlias domain5.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain5.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.6:5205>
    ServerName www.domain6.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain6.com
    ServerAlias domain6.com
    ServerAlias ww2.domain6.com
</VirtualHost>

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