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Just did a fresh install of CentOS, I also installed apache, but it won't start.

[root@blah /]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd:                                            [FAILED]

This is what I get. I tried rebooting the os, still nothing. any ideas? I did check /etc/httpd/logs/error_log file and this is what I found.

Unable to open logs
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  • I doubt that is all that was in your logs. Please post full and complete logs.
    – womble ♦
    Aug 14, 2011 at 4:05
  • thats it, it was line after line after line of "Unable to open logs"
    – M of SoCal
    Aug 14, 2011 at 4:08
  • What does running httpd -X as root say?
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Aug 14, 2011 at 4:17
  • nothing.........
    – M of SoCal
    Aug 14, 2011 at 4:23
  • CustomLog /srv/www/example.coms/logs/access.log combined as u can see above i had typed in example.coms with a 's' at the end. apache couldnt find the access.log file i corrected this typo and everything works fine now. thank you.
    – M of SoCal
    Aug 14, 2011 at 4:33

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It is likely that you have a path defined in one of your configuration parameters that doesn't exist or has the wrong permissions. There are some that Apache will be able to start up with even if they don't exist, and others, like the main error log (there are others) that will cause it to fail to start. Look there.

Also, check to make sure it is not already running:

service httpd status

or

ps aux|grep httpd

If all your paths exist, have good permissions, apache is not already running and you see nothing in your syslog (/var/log/messages by default), then I'd start backtracking by removing the httpd rpm and re-install and start over.

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The Unable to open logs error message was caused by an incorrect CustomLog directive

CustomLog /srv/www/example.coms/logs/access.log combined

should have read 

CustomLog /srv/www/example.com/logs/access.log combined
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