On 10/14/05, Warren Beldad <advisory22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what i did is, i really install new FC4 on another harddisk. > download apache_1.3.33.tar.gz > tar -xvzf apache_1.3.33.tar.gz > edit src/Configuration > EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --server-uid=root --server-gid=root > make > make install > /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start > cannot start, same error.....apache not designed to serve as root........... > if i change the user in the httpd.conf to another user, ok it can start > is there any log files that we can trace what's really wrong with this? It's been so long since I installed 1.3 that I forgot: you can't mix and match the src/Configuration and ./configure method of configuring apache. If you use ./configure, you need to actually set the environment variable EXTRA_CFLAGS (or just CFLAGS) to -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE in your shell before running ./configure. (Alternatively, you can edit src/Configuration.tmpl.) The reason is that the ./configure script overwrites src/Configuration with default values before it begins. But again, you shouldn't be doing this. It's a "bad idea" (tm). Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx