Newbie question please

Hi,

I've just installed Apache on Suse Linux Pro 9.3 (this is actually a
reinstall - I removed it, rebooted, reinstalled). If I open a browser on
the local machine and point to 'http://localhost' I get a message - "The
connection was refused when attempting to contact local host". The same
happens if I try the host name, the IP address or 127.0.0.1.

I'm assuming as this is a fresh installation of Apache the problem lies
somewhere other than my Apache conf files (?) Where do I start looking?

Any further info needed just ask...any help appreciated.

Tim

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Did you start apache? Do a: ps aux | egrep -i http and you
should see probably several, but at least one instance of apache
running. Are you sure you setup apache to run at boot time? I'm not
sure, but I believe SuSE may use the same sort of system that RH uses,
you may want to do a chkconfig --list | egrep -i http or a chkconfig
--list | egrep -i apache and see if it is set to start on bootup.

Also try doing a service httpd start or a service apache start and see
if that does anything. There are some further steps you should
complete, but this should be enough to get you started.

"MikeDawg" <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139420336.578013.124160@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Did you start apache? Do a: ps aux | egrep -i http and you
> should see probably several, but at least one instance of apache
> running. Are you sure you setup apache to run at boot time? I'm not
> sure, but I believe SuSE may use the same sort of system that RH uses,
> you may want to do a chkconfig --list | egrep -i http or a chkconfig
> --list | egrep -i apache and see if it is set to start on bootup.
>
> Also try doing a service httpd start or a service apache start and see
> if that does anything. There are some further steps you should
> complete, but this should be enough to get you started.


Apache is running - I think. When I do the ps aux | etc I get:
root 7542 0.0 0.1 1792 636 pts/2 R+ 19:39 0.00 /bin/grep -E -i http

Is this service number 7542 running under root (is that what this means?) Is
that what I should be getting?

Tim

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:53:17 +0000, news.pull-feed.ntli.net wrote:

> "MikeDawg" <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1139420336.578013.124160@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>> Did you start apache? Do a: ps aux | egrep -i http and you
>> should see probably several, but at least one instance of apache
>> running. Are you sure you setup apache to run at boot time? I'm not
>> sure, but I believe SuSE may use the same sort of system that RH uses,
>> you may want to do a chkconfig --list | egrep -i http or a chkconfig
>> --list | egrep -i apache and see if it is set to start on bootup.
>>
>> Also try doing a service httpd start or a service apache start and see
>> if that does anything. There are some further steps you should
>> complete, but this should be enough to get you started.
>
>
> Apache is running - I think. When I do the ps aux | etc I get:
> root 7542 0.0 0.1 1792 636 pts/2 R+ 19:39 0.00 /bin/grep -E -i http
>
> Is this service number 7542 running under root (is that what this means?) Is
> that what I should be getting?
>
> Tim
No, this is process number 7542, which is searching ( grep ) for http.

Try, logged in as root,

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

( You may need to replace apache2 for http in the above line: have a look
at what's in /etc/init.d and choose the one that looks right ).

See if you then get the default welcome message from http://localhost.

Steve

"Steve" <ThisOne@Aint.Valid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.09.04.16.33.167655@Aint.Valid...
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:53:17 +0000, news.pull-feed.ntli.net wrote:
>
>> "MikeDawg" <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1139420336.578013.124160@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>>> Did you start apache? Do a: ps aux | egrep -i http and you
>>> should see probably several, but at least one instance of apache
>>> running. Are you sure you setup apache to run at boot time? I'm not
>>> sure, but I believe SuSE may use the same sort of system that RH uses,
>>> you may want to do a chkconfig --list | egrep -i http or a chkconfig
>>> --list | egrep -i apache and see if it is set to start on bootup.
>>>
>>> Also try doing a service httpd start or a service apache start and see
>>> if that does anything. There are some further steps you should
>>> complete, but this should be enough to get you started.
>>
>>
>> Apache is running - I think. When I do the ps aux | etc I get:
>> root 7542 0.0 0.1 1792 636 pts/2 R+ 19:39 0.00 /bin/grep -E -i http
>>
>> Is this service number 7542 running under root (is that what this means?)
>> Is
>> that what I should be getting?
>>
>> Tim
> No, this is process number 7542, which is searching ( grep ) for http.
>
> Try, logged in as root,
>
> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>
> ( You may need to replace apache2 for http in the above line: have a look
> at what's in /etc/init.d and choose the one that looks right ).
>
> See if you then get the default welcome message from http://localhost.

That did it. Thanks very much.

Tim


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