Could not start web service – details in error log 100002

[Jimboree]

Hi everyone.
I’m trying to start Web service on 10.5.8 Server, but it always fails with the message: Try to refresh the view (192.168.0.254/Web). Report the problem to the administrator if it persists. (Could not start web service – details in error log.) 100002.

apachectl configtest turns up:

/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 73: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument
Syntax OK

Console turns up:

6/16/11 11:53:23 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
6/16/11 11:53:28 AM org.apache.httpd[6520] (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/apache2/error_log.
6/16/11 11:53:28 AM org.apache.httpd[6520] Unable to open logs
6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[6520]) Exited with exit code: 1
6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[6520]) Exited with exit code: 1
6/16/11 11:53:28 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] Traceback (most recent call last):
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/bin/twistd”, line 21, in
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] run()
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py”, line 27, in run
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py”, line 379, in run
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] runApp(config)
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py”, line 23, in runApp
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py”, line 156, in run
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] self.preApplication()
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py”, line 203, in preApplication
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] self.config[‘prefix’], self.config[‘nodaemon’])
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py”, line 113, in startLogging
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] logFile = app.getLogFile(logfilename or ‘twistd.log’)
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py”, line 410, in getLogFile
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] os.path.dirname(logPath))
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py”, line 113, in __init__
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] BaseLogFile.__init__(self, name, directory, defaultMode)
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] File “/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py”, line 26, in __init__
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] assert os.path.isdir(self.directory)
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.wikid[6521] AssertionError
6/16/11 11:53:34 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid[6521]) Exited with exit code: 1

Has anyone got any ideas what might be causing this? Or any more diagnosis I could try to get to the bottom of it?

Thanks in advance.

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