Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

Butterthlies, Inc., Gets Going

The httpd.conf file (to be found in ... /site.first) contains the following:

User webuser
Group webgroup

ServerName my586

DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.first/htdocs

TransferLog logs/access_log
#Listen is needed for Apache2
Listen 80

In the first edition of this book, we mentioned the directives AccessConfig and ResourceConfig here. If set with /dev/null (NUL under Win32), they disable the srm.conf and access.conf files, and they were formerly required if those files were absent. However, new versions of Apache ignore these files if they are not present, so the directives are no longer required. However, if they are present, the files mentioned will be included in the Config file. In Apache Version 1.3.14 and later, they can be given a directory rather than a filename, and all files in that directory and its subdirectories will be parsed as configuration files.

In Apache v2 the directives AccessConfig and ResourceConfig are abolished and will cause an error. However, you can write: Include conf/srm.conf Include conf/access.conf in that order, and at the end of the Config file.

Apache v2 also, rather oddly, insists on a Listen directive. If you don’t include it in your Config file, you will get the error message:

...no listening sockets available, shutting down.

If you are using Win32, note that the User and Group directives are not supported, ...