On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:39 -0700, Michelle Schuknecht wrote: > 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. You did this manually? What did you call the link in /etc/rc.d/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? Perhaps your manual link causes httpd to start up too soon, before the network is up? It's better to use chkconfig to set up the links: # chkconfig httpd on Paul.