Jorey Bump
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Tue Aug 30 16:29:40 EDT 2005
Jorey Bump wrote: > IR labs wrote: > >> Sorry for a late reply. >> >> I feel really silly for my problem, *really* silly. (almost too silly >> to let you all know ...) >> After trying all different things in the httpd.conf and not seeing any >> noticeable result, I started thinking it could be having to do with >> apache not reading it after I issued "sudo apachectl restart". And >> then I realized that, after I upgraded to apache 2, to make mod_python >> work decently, I forgot to also change the path to >> /usr/local/apache2/bin in my .profile. DUH... So every time I tried to >> made a change to apache2's httpd.conf and "restarted" I restarted >> apache 1, ... well, zero points for dirk and no desert for a week. :-( > > > It's an easy mistake to make, with a simple solution: > > 1. Always prepend root's $PATH with /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin (and > just /usr/local/bin for ordinary users). I typically make sure this is > done globally in /etc/profile, which works for some shells, but others > may require edits to other files. However you accomplish this, I > consider it quite sane. For experimental installs of applications, use > your own ~/bin and *append* that to your path. Of course, that still doesn't help here, unless you create symlinks in /usr/local/[s]bin to the programs in /usr/local/apache2/bin or prepend it to your path. Double DUH... :P
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