Installing apache-1.3.3-1 doesn't startup. I have no file /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types /var/log/httpd/error_log says: [date] [error] (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open mime types log file /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types I copied the file after installing the source rpm, and copying the mime.types file into the conf directory. My config files are the same as rh5.1's apache config files, with a few minor changes. Maybe there is some command in the previous apache config options which is causing this problem? (I'm not very familiar with apache)
the file mime.types is located now in /etc and is provided by the mailcap rpm package. You are right it that it will not run if this file is missing in /etc. If you do a rpm -qR of the apache rpm, it will show that /etc/mime.types is required for installation and should state so when installing apache.
dkl, I understand your comments. My problem has come from piecemeal upgrading to 5.2. It is not easy to upgrade the server in one go and I'd prefer to catch small problems like this early, upgrading the packages one be one, finally performing an upgrade which has little few kinks to iron out. I've been caught once by upgrading in one go especially when using non-redhat rpms (not this case) which stopped working on the upgrade. Thus I'm installing the 5.2 apache on 5.1 redhat. I have mailcap-1.0-7 and this does has /etc/mime.types. Nevertheless I can only start apache if I have mime.types in /etc/httpd/conf/ (as stated in my previous messages). There is obviously some other dependency missing somewhere which doesn't catch my situation, and must be related to mixing 5.1 and 5.2 rpms. (something which I guess isn't that uncommon). For the time being I'm not sure which dependency I'm missing and I'll put a symbolic link in place to fix my situation. Upgrading "properly" should resolve the problem. Simon