Apache’s error’s error – Murphy or a bug.
February 21, 2008
Being the world’s most popular webserver software, Apache is being used since the beginning of the internet on the Unix and Linux based systems. Now a days, all of the Linux based Control Panels come with Apache as a webserver.
One of the Apache’s fleck like other common Linux applications (or it might be a disadvantage) is that, it won’t restart if there is any configuration error in httpd.conf. Since, acting as a webserver, this apache’s config file gets modified more frequently than any other application’s configuration file, so more likely apache encounters these sort of errors very often. But today, I saw a misleading apache’s error. Today, when restarting Apache, it gave me an error telling that, there is a some sort of syntax error at line number 37500, but upon checking, I came to know that there is no such line number in httpd.conf as there were merely 1000 lines in this configuration file. After some moments of acquisition, it was noticed that apache was referring to the last line of this file.
But the question is, why is this so! Is it a good way to trick the dummies or is it really a bug in Apache/1.3.39? 
