Apache startup problem

[Paul Howarth]

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.

You did this manually? What did you call the link in /etc/rc.d/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?

Perhaps your manual link causes httpd to start up too soon, before the
network is up?

It's better to use chkconfig to set up the links:

# chkconfig httpd on

Paul.