httpd server gone mad

[Ed Greshko]

Hiisi wrote:
> Dear Fedora Folks!
> Recently I was trying to install httpd local server on my FC11
> machine. I need it for experiments with php/mySQL. First, I installed
> all the necessary packages:
> yum -y install httpd php mysql mysql-server php-mysql
> /sbin/chkconfig httpd on
> /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
> /sbin/service httpd start
> /sbin/service mysqld start
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'superbubersecretpassword'
> It worked nice at the evening. I tested a few scripts like phpinfo();
> and gone to sleep happily. Next day I begun to work on my project. I
> hadn't change any configuration of the server when suddenly it stopped
> to work. I recognized that when Firefox begun to display empty page,
> not my page.
> I tried 'service httpd start' but got the error:
> Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind
> to address [::]:80
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
> 0.0.0.0:80
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs
>                                                           [FAILED]
> Then I run 'netstat -lnp | grep '0.0.0.0:80' ' to find out witch
> process is using the address. To my surprise it was httpd itself! And
> more over, there's a lot of httpd processes: ps aux | grep httpd
> root      3099  0.0  1.7  28976  9016 ?        Ss   09:25   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3115  0.0  0.8  28896  4288 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3116  0.0  1.1  29108  6112 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3118  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3119  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3122  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3123  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3124  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3125  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache    3126  0.0  0.7  28976  4048 ?        S    09:26   0:00
> /usr/sbin/httpd
> root      3434  0.0  0.1   4200   696 pts/0    S+   09:54   0:00 grep
> httpd
> How can I cure my Apache? Any thoughts?
> Respectfully
> -- 
> Hiisi.
> Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/
>
Your problem is not probably not httpd itself.  It is still running,
which is why a "start" failed.  What you are seeing with the multiple
httpd processes is normal.  Check your httpd.conf and you will see
"StartServers" which controls the number of server processes started. 

Check your logs to see what requests are being sent to it by your
browser and what it is serving up.

FWIW, if httpd wasn't running you wouldn't get a blank page.  You would
get a "server not responding" indication in firefox.  You can see what
you would get by stopping httpd, trying a firefox request, and then
restarting.

-- 
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