Litespeed dies on restart

[djsodom]

I'm having the same exact issues as this user had:
http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=447

Except I'm on a intel Mac.

I'm following Bob Silva's screencast step for step here:
http://i.nfectio.us/litespeed2/litespeed2.html

Litespeed starts perfectly when I initially install it, but when I add the rails vhost, it dies and then I can't restart it via command line. The error I get is:

steve-odoms-computer:/srv/www steveodom$ /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl startCan't determine the Home of LiteSpeed Web Server, exit!
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

The error.log shows:

2006-09-05 10:18:33.365 [NOTICE] Loading LiteSpeed/2.2 Standard ...
2006-09-05 10:18:33.369 [NOTICE] [ADMIN] server socket: 127.0.0.1:7465
2006-09-05 10:18:33.369 [NOTICE] Loading configuration from /usr/local/lsws/conf/httpd_config.xml ...
2006-09-05 10:18:33.371 [NOTICE] Recovering server socket: [*:80]
2006-09-05 10:18:33.371 [NOTICE] Recovering server socket: [*:81]
2006-09-05 10:18:33.371 [INFO] old priority: 0, new priority: 0
2006-09-05 10:18:33.371 [INFO] [config:server:basic] For better obscurity, server version number is hidden in the response header.
2006-09-05 10:18:33.408 [ERROR] [config:server:listener] missing <listenerList>
2006-09-05 10:18:33.408 [WARN] [config:server:listener] No listener is available for normal virtual host!
2006-09-05 10:18:33.408 [NOTICE] The maximum number of file descriptor limit is set to 12288.

I've repeated the install process from scratch 3 times to make sure I wasn't leaving something out

What else can I try?

Steve

 

[xing]

Steve,

You must start the web server as a user that has "root" privilege. Once started, litespeed will automatically downgrade to the configured user level.

Use "sudo lswsctrl start" to start the server if you are not root.