[d3ck4]

I do not usually like for my first post to be a help question but this is driving me crazy.

I am having a problem starting up web sharing it just says 'starting up' and thats it. I know this may be an exhausted topic, but i tried searching for similar problems and found nothing that was the same as mine( http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...t-starting-up/ )

Here is what I get when I put 'httpd' into terminal:

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf


When I click on 'start web sharing' then go into console heres what it says:

Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

I did some searching in my directory and there is not a folder /System/Library/WebObjects/
Someone had told me to turn web objects off but I do not know if that will help or even how to do it.

Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[besson3c]

What do you have in /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf? What happens when you do a:

grep "WebObjects" /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf

Also, do a:

cat /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf

and print the output here, please...

[d3ck4]

i opened up the /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf file in pico heres the output
<Directory "/Users/3V17/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


when i did grep "WebObjects" /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf in terminal nothing happened.. well it didnt display any errors or messages

cat /private/etc/httpd/users/3V17.conf
<Directory "/Users/3V17/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


thanks for your help besson3c

[besson3c]

So, do you have a /Users/3V17 directory? Is that your home directory?

[d3ck4]

yes

[besson3c]

Have you ever enabled WebObjects? Ever installed XCode? What happens when you do a:

launchctl list | grep WebObjects

ls /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ | grep WebObjects

ls /Library/LaunchDaemons/ | grep WebObjects

[d3ck4]

i dont think i have ever enabled webobjects atleast i know i didnt on purpose. i did install Xcode but then uninstalled it a day later. i used the perl script that it came with.

when i do:

launchctl list | grep WebObjects:
it stays idol for about a minute or less then goes back to the prompt

when i do the other 2 commands they quickly go back to prompt..

[besson3c]

grep -i "webobjects" /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

[besson3c]

Are you on OS X Server? What do you get when you do a:

locate apache.conf

If this file exists, you should be able to find a line:

/System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf

in this file. Comment this line out and restart Apache.

[d3ck4]

no i am not on server just 10.4.10

i could not locate the apache.conf

i am starting to think that i need to reinstall os x. i am probably missing tons of files somehow

[d3ck4]

output from terminal

grep -i "webobjects" /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

# Including WebObjects Configs
Include /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf

[zro]

I don't think I've ever seen that line in the Apache config file.

Just comment the "include" line out.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by d3ck4 

output from terminal

grep -i "webobjects" /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

# Including WebObjects Configs
Include /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache/apache.conf

There you go! Just comment this line out and you'll be set...

[d3ck4]

It worked! I cant thank you enough besson3c and zro for your time. Thank you very much.