Personal Web sharing not starting

I've been trying to start personal web sharing and it's not starting up...I already did the apachectl start command in the terminal and I got the following message:
Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: (reason unknown)
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
[Process exited - exit code 3]
I had problems installing php before that happened...and it seems that I can't still the latest version of php since I tried installing it many times and all came out with errors. What can I do in order to make web sharng start? Thanks in advance
Never mind guys...sorry but I think I found the answer, I searched the forum before but I couldn't find it...sorry about that...be safe
Message was edited by: GaToRMade

Cosizzle, not sure this will help either, but try trashing...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences... the whole Prefs folder there.
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration... the whole SysConfig folder.
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist
Reboot... of course you dont have to trash them, you can just move them to the desktop to drag back if it doesn't work.

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hi all
my personal web sharing in system preferences / Sharing will no longer turn on.
I checked it in Terminal and get the following message:
Barry-Kimmelmans-Computer:~ barrykimmelman$ httpd -t {enter}
Syntax error on line 247 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf:
Invalid command '?ClearModuleList', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Barry-Kimmelmans-Computer:~ barrykimmelman$ sudo apachectl start
Password:
Syntax error on line 247 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf:
Invalid command '?ClearModuleList', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
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so, the problem seems to lie within the httpd.conf file although I have no clue what that is or even where it is on my system. I did a "find" search for that file name but nothing showed up.
Even if I found the file I'd have no idea how to fix it.
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Password:
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Barry-Kimmelmans-Computer:~ barrykimmelman$
Barry-Kimmelmans-Computer:~ barrykimmelman$
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Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/barrykimmelman.conf
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fopen: Permission denied
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-bash: Barry-Kimmelmans-Computer:~: command not found
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fopen: Permission denied
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graceful - do a graceful restart by sending a SIGUSR1 or start if not running
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my personal web sharing will not start up.
i tried to start it up at work on my laptop and i got
a message that said anther computer on the network
was using the same name. since then the personal web
sharing can be clicked on but, never starts up.
anyone have any ideas how i can fix this? i am trying
to learn PHP and i need to have it working so i can
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I cannot start Personal Web Sharing. Have tried to install apache2, mysql and php from here: http://www.serverlogistics.com/downloads.php and since then it would not start.
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Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/vayu.conf
fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/httpd/error_log.
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
I hope this will help.
Thanks
Vayu
Imac Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.7)

If you're just trying to get the default install to work again, we'll need to determine if the ServerLogistics install you said you tried has overwritten the system files, or set itself up separately.
To see what version is installed in the default location, from the Terminal run:
/usr/sbin/httpd -v
This will report something like:
Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin)
Second, you can test your config files to see if they are all valid by running:
/sbin/apachectl configtest
This is what Apache does when it starts up, but without changing the process status. You'll be looking for a "Syntax OK" at the end of the output, or else specific error messages in your config files.
Finally, you can check whether you have an Apache process already running a few different ways. One is to look in the /var/run directory for a 'httpd.pid' file, which will contain the process ID of any running Apache process. The other is to search the active process list:
ps -ax | grep httpd
If you see any matches other than your own 'grep httpd' command in the list, you may already have an Apache running and thus be unable to get another one to start via the Personal Web Sharing control panel.
Again, the remedy would be clearer with some input from the ServerLogistics install documentation - what files were put where, how do they interact (if at all) with Apple's versions, etc.
PowerBook G4, et al. Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Unable to start/stop Personal Web Sharing

I do some web development, so I tried making the necessary changes to run PHP files via localhost. I followed various online articles by making some changes to the httpd.conf file, and then downloading MySQL and a later version of PHP (5.0). Since installing yesterday afternoon, I've been unable to start or stop Personal Web Sharing. Any ideas?
Thank you.
Nathan

Are you sure you got the proper version of each for your platform? Depending on which version you dowloaded it may not have been a universal bianary and you might be running ppc instead of x86 or vice versa. I wouldnt expect you to have broken apache if you made only the modifications you noted in your inital post - but perhaps if it was trying to load the php module and it was the worng platform it might through that error and prevent it fromt starting.. but normally whn php fails it jsut throws a warning and continues without it loaded (at least with Marc's automatic configuration). But thats the only thing i can think of.
So next steps:
1.) Verify you are running the x86/PPC (or Universal) versions of PHP and MySQL (MySQL shouldnt really matter but since its one of the majorchanges before apache broke we'll look at it as well).
2.) on the command line run this command and post the output back here:
<pre style="scrolling: auto; width: 90%;">httpd -V</pre>
3.) lets restore your old config:
<pre style="scrolling: auto; width: 90%;">
sudo cp /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.121906.bak
sudo cp /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.default /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
sudo apachectl start</pre>
And then post the ouput of the start command back here.

Unable to start up Personal Web Sharing (OS X 10.3.9)

I have been trying to start up Personal Web Sharing since yesterday. It keeps saying "Web Sharing starting up...", but nothing ever happens.
Actually, what I want to do is to set up a test server environment (not a real server for everyone on the web to access) to learn PHP, MySQL and XOOPS. I bought Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache by Julie C. Meloni (Sams Publishing) and installed MySQL 5.0.22 and PHP 5.1.4 following the instructions on the book. But I was not able to see anything when I entered http://localhost/phpinfo.php on FireFox. (The book tells me to create a simple script called phpinfo.php and save it to /Library/WebServer/Documents.)
I thought the problem might be that I didn't have Personal Web Sharing on, so I went to System Preferences' Sharing panel to start it up. But it just hangs in starting mode... never starts...
I tried Charles's suggestion to Harvey ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=680762&#680762 ). The /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest command returns the following result:
Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: (reason unknown)
I'm wondering if PHP 5.x does not support Panther, but php.net doesn't seem to say so... (I downloaded PHP 4.4.4, but haven't figured out how to use it to replace PHP 5.1.4...) Or maybe it's because I'm connecting to the web via an open network (at a cafe)?
Any suggestions will be much appreciated!
powerbook g3 firewire Mac OS X (10.3.9) XLR8 G4 upgraded

Thank you~ FifthWheel & Karl~!
Even if you're on an open network, or on no network at all,
Apache should start if it is properly configured (even with
no network, the loopback address 'localhost' is still available).
Thank you for the answer! This has been very confusing to me!
I still haven't been able to find out whether PHP 5.1.4 is compatible with Panther's Apache or not (couldn't even find which version of Apache Panther has...) But a guy from another Mac forum (www.oikos.com.tw) seems to be very certain that Entropy's PHP 5.x package is not compatible with Panther. I guess I will just take what he said. I've already sent my complaint to Sams Publishing.
I found "Building and Installing Apache 2.0.54 and PHP 5.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.3.8" on phpmac.com. But it seems quite risky for someone who does not have unix knowledge like me. So I guess what I should do is to find out how to remove the PHP 5.1.4 I installed and install PHP 4.x instead.
Still seeking for a solution... I guess I should start learning Unix too...

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