How do you find out if Apache is installed?

[bobbye]

I need to know how to find out if Apache is installed on a RH server. When I try to run the command 'service httpd start' I get an error message failed.

Thanks

[sdousley]

Could u post the error mesage up here? That should help!

[osiris123d]

do an rpm -q apache

[bobbye]

This is what I get when I try to start the service.

service httpd start
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[FAILED]

So I added the servers static ip address in the httpd.conf file and just get Starting httpd: [FAILED]

And when I check to see if any httpd processes are running I get this.
ps -aux |grep httpd
root 22140 0.0 0.1 5076 588 pts/0 S 01:50 0:00 grep httpd

[nikhil]

do you know where your apache error log file is located?
if so jsut do a tail -f <filename? and see the error message.
unless you post the error message things will be difficult to debug.

[bobbye]

I've came to the conclusion that apache is not installed on the server. Does anyone know of a good tutorial or could walk me through the basics on getting apache installed on a dedicated RH server remotely with ssh?

Thanks

[kriss]

Apache is installed, you just have to edit apache's config files..

Kriss

[bobbye]

I've looked around and found the following files:
/usr/sbin/apachectl
/etc/httpd/ --> config files

but can't find an apache directory.
ran rpm -q apache and returns that it is not installed.
since apachectl is on the system does that mean that apache has to already been installed?

[jasonlambert]

run "apachectrl start" to start it.

in redhat, apache doesnt have its own directory for binaries, you just have your httpd in /usr/bin/ from what i remember.

Jason

[bobbye]

When I try to start apache with /apachectl start I get the following error.
httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName.