Apache Failed... And wont restart even after recompile :s

[AlexSmithMCP]

i just got home from work and found that apache had failed, when i try 2 restart all i get is this

[root@svr1 bin]# service httpd start
/etc/init.d/httpd start: httpd could not be started 

thats even after a recompile.

tail on the error_log file shows this

[root@svr1 logs]# tail error_log -f -n5
[Mon Jun 14 23:17:10 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:25:49 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:25:49 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:25:49 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:29:36 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:33:23 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log.
[Mon Jun 14 23:33:28 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not open bytes log file /usr/local/apache/domlogs/newtolinux.co.uk-bytes_log. 

(newtolinux.co.uk is one of my domains)

any ideas?

[AlexSmithMCP]

o and the /usr/local/apache/domlogs/ folder doesnt exist....

[PWSowner]

Try creating a domlogs folder.

In shell,
cd /usr/local/apache
mkdir domlogs
chown 0711 domlogs

If that doesn't help, try this:
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest

[AlexSmithMCP]

thanks worked a treat, wonder y it stoped working in the first place lol

/me hugs ya (in a non gay kinda way lol)

[PWSowner]

I had my server provider update the kernel a while back and when they were done my sites didn't work. I took a quick look myself and noticed the was no domlogs directory so I created one and restarted apache and all went well. I figured it would take care of your problem as well.