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Trying to start apache, "httpd could not be started" I did a./apachectl status,lynx: not found .

Jul 18th, 2002 08:48
Jack Nerad, Rodman Gomez,

Apache will fail to start for a number of reasons.  Usually the error
message you are given will be enough to troubleshoot the problem.  If
the error message you get on your console isn't enough check the
error_log for clues (sometimes permissions problems will cause apache to
not be able to save to the error_log, so if you don't have an error_log
after starting apache, check those).  If you have a problem with your
configuration file, run apachectl configtest to narrow it down.
"apachectl status" calls a web browser (lynx, in this case) to look at a
url that may be specified in the configuration file that has some status
information.  If lynx is not installed, or if lynx is called with a bad
path, the error message "lynx: not found" will result.  You can adjust
the path to lynx in the apachectl file, to wherever the lynx binary is
installed, or you can add it to your PATH environment variable.  If you
have installed lynx and apachectl is configured to call lynx properly,
you'll not get a status report if apache is not running.