Apache not working

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Hi,
I am new to this forum. I bought Mac book pro few months back. I am working on a project that involves Jboss. Whenever I start Apache and type "http://localhost/" on the browser, the result is "It works!".(But when I hit refresh, it says "Safari can’t open the page “http://localhost/” because Safari can’t connect to the server “localhost”."). There are no "httpd" process running in the Activity Monitor.
I tried to configure, still the same issue. I checked and none of the other services is listening to the same port:80. I have posted the complete content of httpd.conf file in the"/etc/apache2".(I apologize for the long thread)
1. This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the
2. configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
3. See <URL:<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2> for detailed information.
4. In particular, see
5. <URL:<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/directives.html>
6. for a discussion of each configuration directive.
1. Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
2. what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure
3. consult the online docs. You have been warned.
1. Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
2. of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the
3. server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do not begin
4. with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "/private/var/log/apache2/foo_log"
5. with ServerRoot set to "/usr" will be interpreted by the
6. server as "/usr//private/var/log/apache2/foo_log".
1. ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
2. configuration, error, and log files are kept.
1. Do not add a slash at the end of the directory path. If you point
2. ServerRoot at a non-local disk, be sure to point the LockFile directive
3. at a local disk. If you wish to share the same ServerRoot for multiple
4. httpd daemons, you will need to change at least LockFile and PidFile.
ServerRoot "/usr"
1. Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
2. ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
3. directive.
1. Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
2. prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
#Listen 80
1. Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
1. To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you
2. have to place corresponding `LoadModule' lines at this location so the
3. directives contained in it are actually available before they are used.
4. Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l') do not need
1. Example:
2. LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so
LoadModule authnfilemodule libexec/apache2/modauthnfile.so
LoadModule authndbmmodule libexec/apache2/modauthndbm.so
LoadModule authnanonmodule libexec/apache2/modauthnanon.so
LoadModule authndbdmodule libexec/apache2/modauthndbd.so
LoadModule authndefaultmodule libexec/apache2/modauthndefault.so
LoadModule authzhostmodule libexec/apache2/modauthzhost.so
LoadModule authzgroupfilemodule libexec/apache2/modauthzgroupfile.so
LoadModule authzusermodule libexec/apache2/modauthzuser.so
LoadModule authzdbmmodule libexec/apache2/modauthzdbm.so
LoadModule authzownermodule libexec/apache2/modauthzowner.so
LoadModule authzdefaultmodule libexec/apache2/modauthzdefault.so
LoadModule authbasicmodule libexec/apache2/modauthbasic.so
LoadModule authdigestmodule libexec/apache2/modauthdigest.so
LoadModule cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_cache.so
LoadModule diskcachemodule libexec/apache2/moddiskcache.so
LoadModule memcachemodule libexec/apache2/modmemcache.so
LoadModule dbd_module libexec/apache2/mod_dbd.so
LoadModule dumpio_module libexec/apache2/mod_dumpio.so
LoadModule extfiltermodule libexec/apache2/modextfilter.so
LoadModule include_module libexec/apache2/mod_include.so
LoadModule filter_module libexec/apache2/mod_filter.so
LoadModule substitute_module libexec/apache2/mod_substitute.so
LoadModule deflate_module libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule logconfigmodule libexec/apache2/modlogconfig.so
LoadModule logforensicmodule libexec/apache2/modlogforensic.so
LoadModule logio_module libexec/apache2/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module libexec/apache2/mod_env.so
LoadModule mimemagicmodule libexec/apache2/modmimemagic.so
LoadModule cernmetamodule libexec/apache2/modcernmeta.so
LoadModule expires_module libexec/apache2/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module libexec/apache2/mod_headers.so
LoadModule ident_module libexec/apache2/mod_ident.so
LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/apache2/mod_usertrack.so
#LoadModule uniqueidmodule libexec/apache2/moduniqueid.so
LoadModule setenvif_module libexec/apache2/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule version_module libexec/apache2/mod_version.so
LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxyconnectmodule libexec/apache2/modproxyconnect.so
LoadModule proxyftpmodule libexec/apache2/modproxyftp.so
LoadModule proxyhttpmodule libexec/apache2/modproxyhttp.so
LoadModule proxyscgimodule libexec/apache2/modproxyscgi.so
LoadModule proxyajpmodule libexec/apache2/modproxyajp.so
LoadModule proxybalancermodule libexec/apache2/modproxybalancer.so
LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule mime_module libexec/apache2/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module libexec/apache2/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module libexec/apache2/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule asis_module libexec/apache2/mod_asis.so
LoadModule info_module libexec/apache2/mod_info.so
LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule davfsmodule libexec/apache2/moddavfs.so
LoadModule vhostaliasmodule libexec/apache2/modvhostalias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/apache2/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
LoadModule imagemap_module libexec/apache2/mod_imagemap.so
LoadModule actions_module libexec/apache2/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module libexec/apache2/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule bonjour_module libexec/apache2/mod_bonjour.so
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
#LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so
<IfModule !mpmnetwaremodule>
<IfModule !mpmwinntmodule>
1. If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
2. httpd as root initially and it will switch.
1. User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
2. It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
3. running httpd, as with most system services.
User _www
Group _www
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
1. 'Main' server configuration
1. The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'
2. server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a
3. <VirtualHost> definition. These values also provide defaults for
4. any <VirtualHost> containers you may define later in the file.
1. All of these directives may appear inside <VirtualHost> containers,
2. in which case these default settings will be overridden for the
3. virtual host being defined.
1. ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be
2. e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such
3. as error documents. e.g. [email protected]
ServerAdmin [email protected]
1. ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
2. This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
3. it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
1. If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#ServerName www.example.com:80
1. DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
2. documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
3. symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
1. Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
2. to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
3. directory (and its subdirectories).
1. First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
2. features.
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
1. Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
2. particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
3. you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
4. below.
1. This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
1. Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
2. or any combination of:
3. Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
1. Note that "MultiViews" must be named explicitly --- "Options All"
2. doesn't give it to you.
1. The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
2. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
3. for more information.
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
1. AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
2. It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
3. Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
AllowOverride None
1. Controls who can get stuff from this server.
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
1. DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
2. is requested.
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
1. The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
2. viewed by Web clients.
<FilesMatch "^\.(HhTt|DdSs_Ss)">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
1. Apple specific filesystem protection.
<Files "rsrc">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
<DirectoryMatch ".*\.\.namedfork">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</DirectoryMatch>
1. ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
2. If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <VirtualHost>
3. container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
4. logged here. If you do define an error logfile for a <VirtualHost>
5. container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/error_log"
1. LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.
2. Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
3. alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
<IfModule logconfigmodule>
1. The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
2. a CustomLog directive (see below).
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
<IfModule logio_module>
1. You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
</IfModule>
1. The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).
2. If you do not define any access logfiles within a <VirtualHost>
1. container, they will be logged here. Contrariwise, if you do
2. define per-<VirtualHost> access logfiles, transactions will be
3. logged therein and not in this file.
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/access_log" common
1. If you prefer a logfile with access, agent, and referer information
2. (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive.
#CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/access_log" combined
</IfModule>
<IfModule alias_module>
1. Redirect: Allows you to tell clients about documents that used to
2. exist in your server's namespace, but do not anymore. The client
3. will make a new request for the document at its new location.
4. Example:
5. Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar
1. Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to
2. access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.
3. Example:
4. Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path
1. If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will
2. require it to be present in the URL. You will also likely
3. need to provide a <Directory> section to allow access to
4. the filesystem path.
1. ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
2. ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
3. documents in the target directory are treated as applications and
4. run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
5. client. The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias
6. directives as to Alias.
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/((?!(?i:webobjects)).*$) "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$1"
</IfModule>
<IfModule cgid_module>
1. ScriptSock: On threaded servers, designate the path to the UNIX
2. socket used to communicate with the CGI daemon of mod_cgid.
#Scriptsock /private/var/run/cgisock
</IfModule>
1. "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
2. CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
1. DefaultType: the default MIME type the server will use for a document
2. if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
3. If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is
4. a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
5. or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to
6. keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
7. text.
DefaultType text/plain
<IfModule mime_module>
1. TypesConfig points to the file containing the list of mappings from
2. filename extension to MIME-type.
TypesConfig /private/etc/apache2/mime.types
1. AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration
2. file specified in TypesConfig for specific file types.
#AddType application/x-gzip .tgz
1. AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress
2. information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
#AddEncoding x-compress .Z
#AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
1. If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you
2. probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
1. AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers":
2. actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server
3. or added with the Action directive (see below)
1. To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:
2. (You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.)
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
1. For type maps (negotiated resources):
#AddHandler type-map var
1. Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client.
1. To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI):
2. (You will also need to add "Includes" to the "Options" directive.)
#AddType text/html .shtml
#AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
</IfModule>
1. The modmimemagic module allows the server to use various hints from the
2. contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile
3. directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.
#MIMEMagicFile /private/etc/apache2/magic
1. Customizable error responses come in three flavors:
2. 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects
1. Some examples:
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"
#ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html
1. EnableMMAP and EnableSendfile: On systems that support it,
2. memory-mapping or the sendfile syscall is used to deliver
3. files. This usually improves server performance, but must
1. be turned off when serving from networked-mounted
2. filesystems or if support for these functions is otherwise
3. broken on your system.
#EnableMMAP off
#EnableSendfile off
1. 6894961
TraceEnable off
1. Supplemental configuration
1. The configuration files in the /private/etc/apache2/extra/ directory can be
2. included to add extra features or to modify the default configuration of
3. the server, or you may simply copy their contents here and change as
4. necessary.
1. Server-pool management (MPM specific)
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
1. Multi-language error messages
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
1. Fancy directory listings
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
1. Language settings
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-languages.conf
1. User home directories
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
1. Real-time info on requests and configuration
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-info.conf
1. Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
1. Local access to the Apache HTTP Server Manual
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-manual.conf
1. Distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-dav.conf
1. Various default settings
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-default.conf
1. Secure (SSL/TLS) connections
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
1. Note: The following must must be present to support
2. starting without SSL on platforms with no /dev/random equivalent
3. but a statically compiled-in mod_ssl.
<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>
Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf
Also, this is the error when i run configtest :
sgiri:~ sgiri$ /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist
Syntax OK
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks Camelot.
This is the error_log:
[Thu Sep 16 09:16:42 2010] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Thu Sep 16 09:16:42 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Sep 16 09:16:42 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Sep 16 09:16:42 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Sep 16 14:44:29 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Sep 16 16:36:01 2010] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
httpd: aprsockaddr_infoget() failed for Sagar-Giris-MacBook-Pro.local
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Thu Sep 16 16:36:02 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Sep 16 16:36:02 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Sep 16 16:36:02 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Sep 16 20:31:24 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Sep 17 00:38:18 2010] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1 for ServerName
"error_log" [readonly] 1325L, 170941C
This is the error in access_log:
)VwDiI300-_parent_is_not_the_page_we_want_to_write_into_-_different_domain,_exception=Err or:Permission_denied_for%3Chttp://cats.about.com%3E_(document.domain=%3Chttp://cats.about.com%3E)to_get_property_Location.hostname_from%3Chttp://ad.doubleclick.net%3E_(document.domainhas_not_beenset). HTTP/1.1" 404 205
"access_log" [readonly] 150L, 17809C