For some reason I cannot start personal web sharing from the preferences
panel.

On my other computer it all works fine but on this newly installed G4 can't
start it. All other options in the preferences (eg. File sharing FTp sharing
etc.) work. When the systems starts the loading apache webserver statement
appears.

Can someone give me some suggestions please? Is there a command line to get
apache started?

Thanks

Mike

You can use the following command to start apache from the Terminal:

sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start