Apache Help.

I have installed Perl, MySQL, Apache 1.3, and PHP 4 (in that order) and for some reason I can't start Apache. (on FreeBSD 5.3)

First time i tried to start Apache was No server name...using 127.0.0.1 fair enough, I entered my servername.

then apachectl start (from webmin)
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

I have no idea what's wrong.


My Install Process:

Cvsup to the latest ports.

Perl:
cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5
make
make test
make install
make clean
cd ~
rehash
use.perl port

MySQL:
cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server
make
make install
make clean

Then I edited the make.conf file.
Added: WITH_BDB_VER=40
WITH_MYSQL_VER=40

Then Apache 1.3:
cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl
make
make install
make clean

Then finally PHP:
cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php4
make
make install
make clean

I rebooted then I started back up.

Apache failed to start.. no other explainations given. Does anyone know what I did wrong?

Thanks for your help!

You must look at:
error_log AND access_log
or
/var/log/messages

Apache will always write down the error(s).

A default install with make install clean almost never work for the highly customizable ports like apache13-modssl and mod_php4.

To make it worst by you, you installed all of them in one go without testing one by one.

You then mentioned webmin, which is the most useless software on earth and making it harder to troubleshoot the problem.

Since you said no other explainations given, no help can be given here as well. Go google for a tutorial yourself, there are a tons everywhere.

If you are looking for point-n-click and ready to run software, FeeBSD is not for you to challenge yet. Even right after make install clean for Apache, you need to spend at least 5 hours configuring the httpd.conf, apparently you didn't.