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> Hi.  I am quite a newbie to Linux and Unix in general.  I have installed
> a Linux box here on a PC and have been doing some interesting stuff.  I
> decided to try getting it to run a HTTP server and heard that Apache was
> clearly the best.  Again, being a newbie, I didn't want to get into
> compiling and all that sort of thing, so I downloaded the binary version
> off the WWW.APACHE.ORG site.  (version 1.3.6).

> I expanded the file and went about configuring the httpd.conf file.
> Strangely though when I try to execute the server by running
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf, I get
> a message: "bash: /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd: No such file or
> directory".  Now I know this is the same message you get when you try to
> execute a file that's not there, but it is there.  I know it is.  I can
> rename it, I can perform a strings command on it.  I just can't execute
> it for some reason.  I am logged in as root and all permissions seem
> correct:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       291913 Mar 25 09:57 httpd*

> This is very strange.  Anyone have any ideas.  I am running a rather old
> kernel (i.e. version 2.0.27.  Could this be the problem?

> Dave

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> I expanded the file and went about configuring the httpd.conf file.
> Strangely though when I try to execute the server by running
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf, I get
> a message: "bash: /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd: No such file or
> directory".  Now I know this is the same message you get when you try to
> execute a file that's not there, but it is there.  I know it is.  I can
> rename it, I can perform a strings command on it.  I just can't execute
> it for some reason.