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Originally Posted by DJ_Max

When I go to Disk Utility ->First Aid; while my drive is selected, the sections are grayed out. If I can get a screenshot, i will...
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Oops - my mistake. I forgot that you are running 10.1 and in that ancient version of the OS, there is no "repair permissions" feature in Disk Utility. At that time, it was a separate utility and it might not have even come standard with the OS - you might have to download it separately. You can read about it and download it via this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106900

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Originally Posted by hayne

Yeah, that must be the reason I couldn't find the button you were talking aboutr, I knew I wasn't going crazy. I'll download after this post.

Arg!!, I ran the program, and it went through my 23k+ files, and said everything went ok.

Code:

2004-08-27 17:30:52 -0500 - The privileges have been repaired on the volume 'Macintosh HD'

But I still get the same error:

Code:

/usr/sbin/apachectl: permission denied: /etc/httpd [71]

/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

 [71]

I have to look at that shell file, and try to make sense of it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ_Max

I still get the same error:

Code:

/usr/sbin/apachectl: permission denied: /etc/httpd [71]

/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

 [71]

I have to look at that shell file, and try to make sense of it.

The version I have is the one that shipped with Panther, so it may have changed from what you have, but here are the relevant bits:

Code:

# the path to your httpd binary, including options if necessary

HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd



....



    case $ARG in

    start)

        if [ $RUNNING -eq 1 ]; then

            echo "$0 $ARG: httpd (pid $PID) already running"

            continue

        fi

        if $HTTPD ; then

            echo "$0 $ARG: httpd started"

        else

            echo "$0 $ARG: httpd could not be started"

            ERROR=3

        fi

        ;;

From this, it seems that you are getting the error message of the last "echo" line. And this, together with the "permission denied" error you get, seems to indicate that the variable $HTTPD is wrongly defined in your version of the apachectl script. It seems that $HTTPD is defined as /etc/httpd instead of /usr/sbin/httpd as in my version of apachectl.
Have a look and see what is different in your version of the apachectl script.

My mistake on the error log path.

My memory does not go back to 10.1, but just for fun, which httpd should give you the path to your apache binary, and if it does, sudo httpd should start it since httpd -t gave you a clean bill of health. You will want to fix the errors with apachectl to make life easier.

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Originally Posted by kfaulhaber

Thanks, that worked and got apache running.

Quote:

Yeah, I just figured that out. I have to look into what happend, and how to fix it.

BTW, I wanna thank everyone for their help. :cool:

EDIT:
Yeah, you were right on the mark.
I had

Code:

HTTPD=/etc/httpd

When it should have been:

Code:

HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd