Binary is located in /usr/sbin/
When I ran strace -o httpdstart.txt /usr/bin/httpd -k start
It has the following lines to open the httpd.conf
stat("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35894, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
So when loading manually via:
httpd -k start
or
/usr/bin/httpd -k start
httpd loads as expected with the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for configuration.
I also ran strace -o httpdstart.txt /etc/init.d/httpd -k start
i get:
Usage: httpd {start|stop|restart|condrestart|try-restart|force-reload|reload|status|fullstatus|graceful|help|configtest}
So the usage says that I cannot use any option with httpd rc script.
So I ran strace -o httpdstart1.txt /etc/init.d/httpd start. It does not have trace of opening any httpd.conf file.
the httpd rc script in init.d has:
apachectl=/usr/sbin/apachectl
httpd=${HTTPD-/usr/sbin/httpd}
i.e. its pointing to the proper binary file.
httpd -V has the following output:
Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
Server built: Sep 13 2011 13:46:54
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:30
Server loaded: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.10
Compiled using: APR 1.4.5, APR-Util 1.3.12
Architecture: 64-bit
Server MPM: Prefork
threaded: no
forked: yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
When loaded through rcscript, DocumentRoot doesn't get set and
ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
happens(present in welcome.conf), and loads the Fedora Test Page. If I remove the welcome.conf. I will get a Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.
What is it that is going wrong here?