Apache startup problem

[Johannes Christian]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:39 -0700, Michelle Schuknecht wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having a problem starting apache upon boot on FC4.  I have a  
> script in /etc/init.d for httpd to start and have linked this with a  
> file in /etc/rc3.d.  After boot, when I run ps aux, I see that httpd  
> is running:
> 
> root      2557  2.3  0.6  17048  6896 ?        Ss   14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2587  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2588  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2589  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2590  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2591  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2592  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2593  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> apache    2594  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
> sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
> 
> 
> However when I try to access the website, I get a Bad Gateway: The  
> proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server  
> error.  If I go to the script in /etc/init.d to stop and then start  
> the httpd process again everything runs o.k.    Why would this not be  
> starting properly when booting?

I've ever get this error message on my server. I'm using virtual host
and some of the html page was not hosted on my own server. My server
only do a redirecting via apache. What i've found is, this error message
was occur due to http server was down on the remote server (host server)


--jo--