vanman2004 Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 I just downloaded and installed apache on my redhat box (yes i know redhat sucks), but whenever I try to start it it says: Error Failed to start apache : [Thu Jan 16 18:35:25 2003] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: Couldn\'t set permissions on cross-process lock; check User and Group directives [Fri Jan 17 14:50:33 2003] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Fri Jan 17 14:50:33 2003] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: Couldn\'t set permissions on cross-process lock; check User and Group directives [Fri Jan 17 15:43:59 2003] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Fri Jan 17 15:43:59 2003] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: Couldn\'t set permissions on cross-process lock; check User and Group directives I\'m using webmin, if that matters. PLEASE HELP! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61-semi-newb-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 do not talk bad about red hat what are the Group and User directives in the httpd.conf? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61-semi-newb-help/#findComment-166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanman2004 Posted January 21, 2003 Author Share Posted January 21, 2003 User nobody Group #-1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61-semi-newb-help/#findComment-202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanman2004 Posted February 12, 2003 Author Share Posted February 12, 2003 ::bump:: please help, I really need this server up and running. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61-semi-newb-help/#findComment-429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 change your user and group to something else. apache/apache or www/www for example. then make sure that user/group owns everything in htdocs. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61-semi-newb-help/#findComment-431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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