Hi Owen, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > On firefox ran "http://127.0.0.1/". It hung there for prolonged > > time without the default page popup. > > Error log? $ cat /var/log/apache2/error.log .... [Thu Oct 19 03:36:00 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Oct 19 03:36:57 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Oct 19 03:39:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Oct 19 03:40:41 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Oct 19 03:41:42 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Oct 19 03:42:39 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Oct 19 04:01:11 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down * end * > What is "Listen" set to? > Are you listening to port 80? Listen 80 Listen 44 > Do you have a FW? You meant on iptables? If YES, then NO. $ sudo iptables --list Password: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination TCPMSS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN tcpmss match 1400:1536 TCPMSS clamp to PMTU Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination * end * > Is it blocking (check logs)? $ cat /var/log/apache2/access.log It is an empty file. ls /var/lock/apache2/ No printout No other lock-file found. > What is the IP of localhost? $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ubuntu # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts * end * > Why 127.0.1.1? Because on running; $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server... apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName * end * It said "using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName". Just tested it. > Why not start out simple and don't complicate things until you get it > working...? What shall I test first. TIA. B.R. Stephen > > > > $ ps -ef | egrep /apache2 > > root 5064 1 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > www-data 5066 5064 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > www-data 5067 5064 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > www-data 5068 5064 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > www-data 5069 5064 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > www-data 5070 5064 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 > -k > > start -DSSL > > satimis 5077 4836 0 11:30 pts/2 00:00:00 grep -E /apache2 > > * end * > > > > > > $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > * Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server... apache2: Could not > > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using > > 127.0.1.1 for > > ServerName > > apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain > name, > > using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName > > > > > > [ ok ] > > * end * > > > > Apache2 is running. Please help. TIA > > > > Also tried "http://127.0.1.1/", still the same. > > > > > > B.R. > > Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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