Re: sudo: apachectl: command not found (Apache Users)

Hello mike,

Yes you are write I installed server first inside /usr and then inside /usr/local/apache2 (installed by default when I used ./configure without --prefix option). Even you are right about my manual un installation.

About the command you suggested with -V option, this is the result.

Server version: Apache/2.4.12 (Unix)
Server built:   Mar 31 2015 16:20:21
Server's Module Magic Number: 20120211:41
Server loaded: APR 1.5.1, APR-UTIL 1.5.4
Compiled using: APR 1.5.1, APR-UTIL 1.5.4
Architecture:   64-bit
Server MPM:     event
threaded:     yes (fixed thread count)
    forked:     yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=256
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"

I looked inside /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl, the HTTPD var set to

HTTPD='/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd'

In parallel I also looked inside /usr/bin/apacheclt, there the HTTPD var set to

HTTPD='/usr/bin/httpd'. So I assume both of them pointing to their respective directories.

I tried the second command you suggested
sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start -f /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

Good news The server started with usual warning message but Yes!!! it is using the httpd.conf file which resides inside /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf.

The message it always show is,
AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

Now is there any way I can set apache to look inside /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf by default, by forgetting the first installation inside /usr? Or should I always specify the httpd.conf path as you suggested?

Thank you for the documentation links, I'm referring those links now.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Mike Rumph <mike.rumph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Padmahas,

It looks like your two installations of Apache httpd 2.4 are conflicting with each other.
If I understand correctly, you first installed into /user and then into /usr/local/apache2.
Then you tried to remove the /user installation by deleting files manually.
(As you've seen, /user is not a good choice, because this is used for many other things as well.)
It would probably help to do a fresh installation.
But let's try a few things first.

When tried " sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start "
It gave " httpd: Could not open configuration file /usr/conf/httpd.conf: No such file or directory ".
You are probably wanting to use /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf instead.

What results do you get from sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -V ?
Look inside /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl
What is the variable HTTPD set to?
You could try using sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start -f /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
to override the config file location.

See the following links for further options on the apachectl or httpd commands:
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/apachectl.html
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/httpd.html

Thanks,

Mike Rumph

On 3/31/2015 3:36 AM, Padmahas Bn wrote:

If anyone finds this as a big question please let me know. I'll precise my problem.

Steps I followed:

I installed apr and apr-utils package in the path "/usr" using the --prefix option.

Both were installed successfully. Hence I installed apache 2.4 to the same path ("/usr") using --prefix option while running "./configure" .

Later I came to know if prefix is not mentioned for apache2.4 installation, it will be installed inside /usr/local/apache2 by default.

Hence I again installed without specifying --prefix option which does installed the apache2 into /usr/local/apache2.

Now I cd to /usr/local/apache2/bin and run sudo apachectl -k start and the apache server was started successfully. Only later I came to know the server is running from the /usr files installed at first time.

Instead of having 2 installations I thought of removing the one installed inside /usr and deleted all files manually and carefully from all sub folders of /usr.

Now when I run the server from /usr/local/apache2 using " sudo apachectl -k start " it says sudo: apachectl: command not found

So I supplied full path using " sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start "

But its giving " httpd: Could not open configuration file /usr/conf/httpd.conf: No such file or directory ".

Thank you.