Apache (+Perl&PHP) on Slackware (newbie)

[qistoph]

Hi 2 all...
I'm quiet a newbie to linux. (Not Apache, I've got it running for about 2 years now on a Win98 and a WinXP computer)
Since a while I'm getting interested in Linux and installed Slackware (as someone adviced me). Without X.

Now I've downloaded Apache (httpd-2.0.36) and I'm trying to install it, what I did is this:
"/usr/local/src# tar -zvxf httpd-2.0.36"
"/usr/local/src# cd httpd-2.0.36"
"/usr/local/src/httpd-2.0.36# .configure"
"/usr/local/src/httpd-2.0.36# make"
"/usr/local/src/httpd-2.0.36# make install"

Then I tried to run Apache:
"/usr/local/local/apache2/bin# apachectl start"

And connect to localhost using lynx:
"/usr/local/local/apache2/bin# lynx localhost"
But go an error "Unable to connect to remote host"

And tried to shutdown Apache:
"/usr/local/local/apache2/bin# apachectl stop"
and got this error:
"httpd (pid 16673?) not running"

Can somebody help me on this?

Mzzl, Chris

[Anon]

check you logs:
/usr/local/local/apache2/logs/error_log
or
/var/logs/apache/error_log

what does it say?

[qistoph]

/usr/local/local/apache2/logs/error_log:
[Fri Jun 07 00:19:03 2002] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid ove
rwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Fri Jun 07 00:19:03 2002] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: Couldn't set permission
s on cross-process lock; check User and Group directives

This is repeated a couple of times, with exact the same error (on different days with different times, dûh)

/var/logs/apache/error_log is not found
/var/log contains no dir named "apache"
/var/logs doesn't exist 😉

I hope this is enough information to help me :S

Mzzl, Chris

[qistoph]

Can someone tell me what this means and what to do about it?

Thanks