httpd won't start and no error entries in error_log

From: Andrew Falanga (andy_at_spam.me.not)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:55:42 -0700

Hi there everybody,

I'm going to lay out the ground work so you'll know the context. Please
forgive me if you feel this to be overburden.

Ok here's the deal. I installed apache 1.3.28 from the OpenBSD packages
collection (basically, a prebuilt version for the platform on which I am
running OpenBSD 3.4 (this is for those in the c.i.w.s.u newsgroup)).
Then, using the same method, installed php. However, the prebuilt php
package didn't have postgresql support compiled in to it.

So, I removed that package and downloaded the sources myself and built
php with the support installed. All went well, I configured, I made and
installed.

Now, when I type httpd on the command line, all that happens is the
prompt is returned and the server doesn't start. There's no errors
written to stdout, stderr or /var/www/logs/error_log. However, when
doing echo $?, I see that apache returns a integral value of 4. Does
anyone know that this means?

I'm unable to do httpd -X. Same return code. If I do httpd -t, same
return code, same behavior. Nothing is done to indicate that and error
was encountered. This is more than highly frustrating.

For those in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix who might not be familiar
with OpenBSD, there's nothing really "special" about their prebuilt
package. It's installed with uid & gid of www. It's chroot'd to
/var/www, and after that, it seems to be pretty much vanilla (from what
I've seen, admittedly, I'm no apache guru).

Prior to this installing of php (separate of the prebuilt version),
apache was working just great.

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