Apache startup problem

[Michelle Schuknecht <tristan11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I am having a problem starting apache upon boot on FC4.  I have a  
script in /etc/init.d for httpd to start and have linked this with a  
file in /etc/rc3.d.  After boot, when I run ps aux, I see that httpd  
is running:

root      2557  2.3  0.6  17048  6896 ?        Ss   14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2587  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2588  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2589  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2590  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2591  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2592  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2593  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start
apache    2594  0.0  0.6  17048  6912 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /usr/ 
sbin/httpd -DSSL -k start


However when I try to access the website, I get a Bad Gateway: The  
proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server  
error.  If I go to the script in /etc/init.d to stop and then start  
the httpd process again everything runs o.k.    Why would this not be  
starting properly when booting?

Michelle