Hi, I wrote a configuration file and attempted to start apache with it using: apachectl -d . -f ./filename however... 1 - my errorlog states: [Sat Dec 03 05:17:02 2005] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /var/run/httpd.pid so my first question is: is this error fatal? or did Apache continue to startup? Is there a verbose mode for apache startup that would make this clear to me? 2 - I dont understand why the Order directive was rejected. DId I need to load something for this to work? 3 - Here is my httpd.conf. I just want to get the server going for starters. ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost Listen 23580 DocumentRoot /home/tbrannon/cvs/blue/wagsvr /htdocs/ <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory "/home/tbrannon/cvs/blue/wagsvr/htdocs/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None #n Order allow,deny # allow from all # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place #RewriteRule ^/(.+)[.]s?html$ /cgi-bin/lc.cgi/$1.html [PT] # RedirectMatch ^(.+html)$ /cgi-bin/lc.cgi/$1 </Directory> #ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /ernest/dev/livingcosmos/cgi-bin/ #Action text/html /cgi-bin/lc.cgi <Directory "/home/tbrannon/cvs/blue/wagsvr/cgi-bin/"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch # Order allow,deny # Allow from all </Directory> LogLevel debug ErrorLog /tmp/wagsvr-error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. #CustomLog /tmp/wagsvr-access.log combined - breaks also ServerSignature On --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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