Where to find the latest boot log information

Question

Hi,

I recently set up an Apache to my RPI and it works fine, after following some set up from the books, i can see just a glimpse that it failed during booting process of RPI, consulted mr Google but still was not able to find the right location as some of the file do not exist and some do. I can repeat the process in the book but it is good to know how RPI especially Apache server reacted and what error it throws.

Thanks,

Clemzky

rew · Accepted Answer

I installed apache2 for you on my raspberry pi.

It worked without the error message out of the box.

Then I removed the line

192.168.235.168 raspberrypi.bitwizard.nl raspberrypi rpi

from my /etc/hosts file and I got a very similar error message as you're getting.

Then I added "ServerName 192.168.235.168" to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Someone mentioned "httpd.conf" but that's the older filename.

Do you need me to test if adding it to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default also works?

iagorubio · Answer

Hello Clem, Nash had a typo in his post and it's the " configtest " and not the " conftest " option to apache_ctl you should be using. apachectl - Apache HTTP Server Control Interface - Apache HTTP Server Anyway the httpd executable have also a configuration syntax checker option, "httpd -t". $ httpd -t /path/to/config.file The "cannot determine ... " warning is not that important as it's just used in Apache for redirection urls - mostly for error messages - for the logs, and server's signature on page's footer. It just means there is no ServerName directive in the configuration. If you want to get rid of that error just use in your configuration file the directive: ServerName IP.OF.YOUR.PI

gregoryfenton · Answer

Try sudo apache2ctl configtest