On 4 May 2010, at 08:06, Tapan Maheshwari wrote: > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected Looks like your system may be trying to run httpd as a script, which implies the installation is broken. How did you install? What does "file /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd" tell you? -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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