<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!--
        XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
              This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT
        XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
      -->
<title>Support - Frequently Asked Questions - Apache HTTP Server</title>
<link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" />
<link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" />
<link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" />
<link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /><link href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/faq/support.html" rel="canonical" /></head>
<body id="manual-page" class="no-sidebar"><div id="page-header">
<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p>
<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p>
<img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div>
<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="&lt;-" alt="&lt;-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div>
<div id="path">
<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> &gt; <a href="../">Version 2.0</a> &gt; <a href="./">FAQ</a></div><div style="width: 90%;" class="outofdate"><h4>Please note</h4>
    This document refers to the 2.0 version of Apache httpd, which is no longer maintained.<br />
    Upgrade, and refer to the current version of httpd instead, documented at:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/">Current release version of Apache HTTP Server documentation</a></li></ul>
    You may follow <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/faq/support.html">this link</a> to 
    go to the current version of this document.
</div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Support - Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
<div class="toplang">
<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/faq/support.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
<a href="../ko/faq/support.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean">&nbsp;ko&nbsp;</a> |
<a href="../tr/faq/support.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe">&nbsp;tr&nbsp;</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="support" id="support">Support</a></h2>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="#support.what2do">"Why can't I ...? Why won't ... work?" What
    to do in case of problems</a></li>

    <li><a href="#support.support">Whom do I contact for support?</a></li>
    </ul>

    <h3><a name="support.what2do" id="support.what2do">"Why can't I ...? Why won't ... work?" What to do in case of
    problems</a></h3>
    

      <p>If you are having trouble with your Apache server software, you should
      take the following steps:</p>

      <dl>
      <dt>Check the errorlog!</dt>
      <dd>Apache tries to be helpful when it encounters a problem. In many
      cases, it will provide some details by writing one or messages to the
      server error log. Sometimes this is enough for you to diagnose &amp; fix
      the problem yourself (such as file permissions or the like). The default
      location of the error log is
      <code>/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log</code>, but see the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#errorlog">ErrorLog</a></code> directive in your config files for the
      location on your server.</dd>

      <dt>Check the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/faq/">FAQ</a>!</dt>
      <dd>The latest version of the Apache Frequently-Asked Questions list can
      always be found at the main Apache web site.</dd>

      <dt>Check the Apache bug database</dt>
      <dd>Most problems that get reported to The Apache Group are recorded in
      the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html">bug database</a>.
      <strong>Please</strong> check the existing reports, open
      <strong>and</strong> closed, before adding one. If you find that your
      issue has already been reported, please <em>don't</em> add a "me, too"
      report. If the original report isn't closed yet, we suggest that you
      check it periodically. You might also consider contacting the original
      submitter, because there may be an email exchange going on about the
      issue that isn't getting recorded in the database.</dd>

      <dt><a id="support.what2do.user-support" name="support.what2do.user-support">Ask in a user support forum</a></dt>
      <dd><p>Apache has an active community of users who are willing to share
      their knowledge. Participating in this community is usually the best and
      fastest way to get answers to your questions and problems.</p>

      <p><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html">Users
      mailing list</a></p>

      <p><a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#httpd">#httpd</a> on 
      <a href="http://freenode.net">Freenode IRC</a> is available for 
      user support issues.</p>

      <p>USENET newsgroups:</p>

      <ul>
      <li>comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
      [<a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix">news</a>]
      [<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix">google</a>]
      </li>

      <li>comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
      [<a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows">news</a>]
      [<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows">google</a>]
      </li>

      <li>comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
      [<a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi">news</a>]
      [<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi">google</a>]
      </li>
      </ul></dd>

      <dt>If all else fails, report the problem in the bug database</dt>
      <dd><p>If you've gone through those steps above that are appropriate and
      have obtained no relief, then please <em>do</em> let the httpd developers
      know about the problem by <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html">logging a bug
      report</a>.</p>

      <p>If your problem involves the server crashing and generating a core
      dump, please include a backtrace (if possible). As an example,</p>

      <div class="example"><p><code>
        # cd <var>ServerRoot</var><br />
        # dbx <var>httpd</var> <var>core</var><br />
        (dbx) where
      </code></p></div>

      <p>(Substitute the appropriate locations for your <var>ServerRoot</var>
      and your <var>httpd</var> and <var>core</var> files. You may have to use
      <code>gdb</code> instead of <code>dbx</code>.)</p>
      </dd>
      </dl>
    

    <h3><a name="support.support" id="support.support">Whom do I contact for support?</a></h3>
      <p>With several million users and fewer than forty volunteer developers,
      we cannot provide personal support for Apache. For free support, we
      suggest participating in a <a href="#support.what2do.user-support">user forum</a>.</p>

    
</div></div>
<div class="bottomlang">
<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/faq/support.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
<a href="../ko/faq/support.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean">&nbsp;ko&nbsp;</a> |
<a href="../tr/faq/support.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe">&nbsp;tr&nbsp;</a></p>
</div><div id="footer">
<p class="apache">Copyright 2013 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p>
<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div>
</body></html>