How to open Port 80

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear all,

I installed an apache webserver and try to reach my maschine. i detected two strange behaviours/facts:

When I try to start the webserver with the apachctl or directly with httpd -k start nothing happens (I am thinking about any response, a status or error report or something similar). Instead if I look for this process with top I see an increase of the cpu usage divergent against 100% (stoped it before) but no message.

What should I see?

I try to reach my maschine with a browser and a tool which checks the ports opened. the Result: Port 80 is closed. How can I open it?

Is this closed port (which is defined as the port to listen to in the httpd.conf) a proper reason for the first behaviour described above?

Thanks and best regads,

Oliver

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

HI Oliver,

did you configure port 80 in the /etc/services file ?

Robert-Jan

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Robert,

it looks like. I checked the /etc/services and there is the line

http 80/tcp www # World Wide Web HTT

inside. Is this enough. How to activate changes to this file?

Best regards,

Oliver

[John Palmer]

/etc/services is a red herring. The reason port 80 isn't open is that Apache isn't running so hasn't opened it.

Check your configuration in /.../Apache/Apache/conf and logs in /.../Apache/Apache/logs

to try to determine what's going wrong.

Regards,
John

[Oliver Schmitz]

I am just trying to do so but obviously without much success: The http.conf seems to me (which must not be a very hard argument) allright (I have a book and I am doing it quite similar). That the port is not opened unless the apache is running is reasonable to me, so thanks for that.

Now the main question: What do I intend to see when starting the apache with httpd -k start?

As I mentioned I see nothing but a very busy processor.

I have no ideas to fiddle out what could run wrong so it would be nice if anybody has some. It is my first time I am setting up such a server.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

oliver

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

HI Oliver,

Could you give us a bit more info on what you are installing and where did you get the software ?

Somathing like below.

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXWSATW101001

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Oliver Schmitz]

Hi Robert,

thanks for your helpstarter: I installed the hp software product B9416AA which is the apache webserver deliverd with the HP-UX 11.i TCOE

Do you know something about troubles with this product, patches needed etc.

Thanks for more hints.

Best regards,

Oliver

[KapilRaj]

R u starting it as root ?. If not u have to have setuid set on httpd binary

Kaps

[KapilRaj]

can u post the error in $APACHE_HOME (where u have apache installed)/log/error*

Kaps

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Kapil,

thanks for your advices. I am really interested aswell in at least one log: The bad message is: There is nothing inside my APACHE_HOME/logs

Any explanation for this?

Maybe the version on the os bundle is not so good?

Thanks for more,

best regards,

Oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear all,

I have some new hints of disfunctionality:

Try apachectl status and fullstatus. The response:

#:apachectl status
Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status

[3]+ Done apachectl status
#: apachectl fullstatus &
[3] 18042
root@ipp060:
Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status

[3]+ Done apachectl fullstatus


Gives this some more reasonable hints to this behaviour beside that the server itself is obviously not runnig (but this is show as httpd in the ps -ef).

Thanks,

Oliver

[KapilRaj]

Can u do a apachectl -configtest and post the output please ... It will check for errors in config file (httpd.conf)

where is apache installed ?
do u hv a conf directory and httpd.conf in their ?

Kaps

[T. M. Louah]

Bundled documentation (Release Notes, Admin Guides, User Guides, Migration Guides and FAQs) now install into /opt/hpws/hp_docs. These documents can be accessed after starting HP-UX Apache-based Web Server, HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine, and HP-UX Webmin-based Admin by browsing to http://yourserver.com/hp_docs on the appropriate port (i.e., for Webmin on port 10000, the URL should be: http://yourserver.com:10000/hp_docs). ). See /opt/hpws/README for more information about getting started with each component.

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Kapil,

I tested around with the features of the pachectl script. No good news from this:

status and fullstatus: see above

everything else including configtest: Nothing, this means really nothing: No new logs, no message on the screen... (o.k. help works as it should(oh no not really: The help of httpd but not the one of apachectl appears).

By the way: Everything looks like there is no apache installed at all. But it really is!! httpd -v gives

Server version: HP Apache-based Web Server/2.0.43
Server built: Oct 16 2002 20:49:56

The apache_home/conf/httpd.conf is there and I went through it for 20 times now-> nothinf which looks too unreasonable.

So I am more and more lost. If anybody has more ideas wolud be more than welcome.

What about the websuite from hp? Are only expensive products working? The decission to buy a hp workstation was among other reasons based on the apache included. Should it run at all (has anybody a proper running apache?)?

Nevertheless it has to work and therefore I am more than happy about more help.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

oliver

[KapilRaj]

no worries i have had many apaches runing .. and it RUNS !!!!

As I hv seen earlier i have seen the following directories under $APACHE_HOME

bin conf htdocs libexec logs proxy

Are all directories present ?. U said logs is not there ... can u create it ?

ARE YOU STARTING IT AS ROOT ??. Else u will not be able to bind port 80

I would try this way ...

Login as root

cd $APACHE_HOME
bin/apachectl start
ps -ef |grep apache|grep -v grep
if not found then i would cd logs and see any error file is created and view it !

Kaps

[Mark Grant]

If you ping "localhost" do you get a response?

If not put "127.0.0.1 localhost" in your /etc/hosts file.

[Oliver Schmitz]

Hi Kapil,

thank you very much for your intense help. Here some more infomation:

1.) The content of my apache_home which is /opt/hpapache2/

LICENSE bin conf htdocs lib modules tomcat
LICENSES build error icons logs php util
README cgi-bin hp_apache_docs include man ssl webmin

2.) I did
cd /opt/hpapache2/bin
./apachectl start
and nothing more to do on this terminal (I know the & was missing (or not?))

On another terminal I did the ps and the response is:

root 18153 17965 0 17:33:19 pts/1 0:00 /usr/bin/sh ./apachectl start
root 18154 18153 255 17:33:19 pts/1 6:19 /opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd -d /opt/hpapache2 -k start

Is it right to think that apachectl start does not succeed baut mannaged to start the httpd?

Thanks for some thoughts about this.

Oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

PING localhost.ipp.kfa-juelich.de: 64 byte packets
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3. time=0. ms

----localhost.ipp.kfa-juelich.de PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/0/0

[KapilRaj]

It looks like apache is started . httpd is the daemon process which listens to the port which u hv specified in httpd.conf

can u do lsof -i tcp:80 (U should hv lsof installed)

or can u start an Internet explorer with "http://hostname/"

Kaps

[Oliver Schmitz]

Concerning the remark of T.M.Loah:

I have no /opt/hpws directory on my maschine. Any ideas whether this could be a problem.

Concerning documents to access: In my httpd.conf the DocumentRoot is set to /opt/hpapache27htdocs and inside there is the index.html from the apache documentation. This should not be the error, shouldn't it?

Thanks and best regards,

oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Kapil,

I have no isof installed (where can I get it from?).

Therefore I tried again to reach my document with a browser. The answer was that no connection could be established (connection refused in netscape and Not connection possible in my Konqueror).

The apachectl start is still running now if I look with ps -ef|grep httpd.
Is this reasonable?

Thanks for more in advance and best regards,

oliver

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

lsof

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.69/

RJ

[KapilRaj]

Hv u started it as root ?? u hv never answered it ..

Kaps

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Kapil,

sorry, yes I started it as root.
I mde an own user and group to run my apache but after it did not work I tried and tried and tried... it as root.

Can I correct/control the port binding?

Thanks again,

Oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Robert,

I installed the lsof from the source you mentioned and choosed the one for the PA-Risc version of HP-UX11.00: Another strange result when I try to run lsof:

lsof: FATAL: lsof was built for a 32 bit kernel, but this
is a 64 bit kernel.

Is this reasonable for this source.

Thanks,

Oliver