[jtc]

I've been running apache for a couple of months with no problems, until yesterday. It's a proxy server for another machine and I use it to access a mysql database (with php). It doesn’t start up whether I use httpd, apachectl or the sharing control panel. For example, if I sudo apachectl start the httpd process never shows up, and sudo apachectl stop will tell me that httpd is not running. The logs are of no help – it’s not starting up then shutting down, it seems that it never attempts to start httpd.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[awaspaas]

have you tried sudo apachectl configtest?

[jtc]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
have you tried sudo apachectl configtest?

Forgot to mention that. Yeah, the config file is fine (I haven't changed it in a while).

[sambeau]

Have you changed any permissions? check that it can get the the web directory and the its log files... make sure that they are both readable and writable (especially in the case of logs)

[jtc]

Originally posted by sambeau:
Have you changed any permissions? check that it can get the the web directory and the its log files... make sure that they are both readable and writable (especially in the case of logs)

Permissions are ok - I repair them once a week or so.