httpd dead

[alan]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Nina Pham wrote:

> I stop current my web server, when I restarted it /etc/init.d/httpd 
> start. it said OK, but when I do status, it said "httpd dead but pid 
> file exists". And I can't go to my website. What does that mean? what 
> can I do to restart the service?


Check the error_log in /etc/httpd/logs and find out what is crashing the 
service.  It could be a configuration error or it could be something else.