On Solaris we configure Apache to layout where runtimedir is set to /var/run/apache2/2.2. Httpd itself will report following error when this directory is not available: [Mon Mar 18 13:19:55 2013] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not create /var/run/apache2/2.2/httpd.pid [Mon Mar 18 13:19:55 2013] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /var/run/apache2/2.2/httpd.pid We currently create this directory in apachectl. But it would be probably better to allow httpd to create this directory when it's needed. Note that /var/run is cleared after each reboot.
Created attachment 30139 [details] Possible fix.
Created attachment 30458 [details] new patch There seems to be problem with originally proposed action of creating Pid file directory if it doesn't exist. Original idea was that this directory (which is by default runtime directory) is used by other components after it's created. But some modules may need to access this directory before Pid file is created. One example is mod_fcgid shared memory which is created in module init function. Therefore it seems better to create run time directory at early stage of httpd start. And since Apache allows to overwrite all run time directory usage (via directives like PidFile, FcgidProcessTableFile, ..) we can do that only when default configuration file is used.
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