First I specified apache2 in my use flags and then I originally emerged apache with emerge apache mod_php. A bunch of warning messages popped up but scrolled past to quickly to be noted. I later tried to re-emerge by running emerge apache, but had the same results. The real details are in the steps to reproduce and the actual reasults section. Bug is being discussed in forums at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=250688 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge apache mod_ssl 2. uncomment # APACHE@_OPTS="-D SSL" line from /etc/conf.d/apache2 3.as root run /etc/init.d/apache2 start Actual Results: Error from first attempt: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: Syntax error on line 44 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/modules.d/41_mod_ssl.default- vhost.conf: SSLCertificateFile: file '/usr/lib/apache2/conf/ssl/server.crt' does not exist or is empty Upon re-commenting out of APACHE2_OPTS and attempting to run /etc/init.d/apache2 start I recieved the following error: * Starting apache2... (2)No such file or directory: apache2: could not open error log file /usr/lib/apache2/logs/error_log. Unable to open logs [ !! ] Expected Results: * Starting apache2... [ ok ] I was able to fix the logging related error by creating the /var/log/apache2 directory that /usr/lib/apache2/logs is supposed to link to. I disabled APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL" and was able to start up apache2 using /etc/init.d/apache2 start Here are the results of my emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808- r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt doc gif gpm ipv6 jp2 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff multilib mysql ncurses nls opengl oss pam perl png python readline ssl tcpd tiff truetype usb userlocales xml2 xpm xrandr xv zlib"
Seeing same issue on x86 32-bit platform. SSL keys and some basic run-time directories are not being created.
Had to create the following directories: /etc/apache2/conf/ssl (install ssl certificates here) /var/cache/apache2 /var/log/apache2
This is the same as bug #70994
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70994 ***
Closing.
