[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server - update 4

[Wim De Smet]

Hi,


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> I'm sorry to be such a pain.
>
> I'm pretty close solving this server thing, I think [ but sometimes I
> shouldn't think ].
>
> I used the site available file that I sent yesterday with one small
> change. I added the DocumentRoot line. Enabled it. Restarted the Apache2.
> First try I get a message on my other computer when using
> 192.168.1.025/~cslsa/ that I don't have permission to access the page.
>  The "owner" of the directory and files within are to billie0w, the user of
> the computer.
>
> I also had a minor issue in the file and had to go back and change it.
> Disabled the old file. made the edit. Re-enabled the file and restarted
> Apache2. Got a REAL weird bunch of error messages :
>
> *Reloading web server config: apache2
> /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (operation not
> permitted)
> apache2 . Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain
> name, using 127.0.1.1 for Servername
> httpd not running, trying to start
> (13) permission denied: make sock: could not bind address 0.0.0.0:80
> no listening sock available, shutting down
> unable to open logs
> action 'graceful' failed
> The apache error log may have more information.
>

Looks like you were trying to start the web server as a normal user?
Normally you shouldn't be able to do that. Are you using the init.d script?

regards,
Wim