Hello,

I am extremely new to linux but I have the basic concepts down, I have a problem with apache2 on start, The error logs strangely show nothing related to what it says, all it says is:

* Starting web server apache2 /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 139: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /etc/apache2: Permission denied
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

But as I said the error logs show nothing related. At one point it said there was no favicon.ico file which is not relevant and I fixed that. If you need anything else I would be glad to supply it, Also it may have to do with the whole httpd.conf thing which really confuses me any help on that too would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks for reading ,
bengalman211

Are you starting apache2 as a normal user? have you tried starting it as root?

Yes I have tried to start it as root and anything else I could think I even changed the permission of the files to my user

run
what does it say?
check for SELinux
what distribution are you using? also start apache again and post the error log

httpd -s returns the following:


No command 'httpd' found, did you mean:
Command 'xttpd' from package 'xtide' (universe)
Command 'http' from package 'httpie' (universe)
httpd: command not found

I am using linux mint 14 MATE


When I start apache2 the error log returns the following


[Thu Jun 13 11:25:17 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down


Notice that date is completely off it makes no sense so basically it isn't returning anything

I MIGHT be looking at the wrong file could you point me to where it might be?

Post the output of below command

check whether apache2 syntax ok message

#apache2ctl -t


List of all virtual hosts and default servers configuration

#apache2ctl -S

have you checked our apache logs & error logs .Which gives you hints to resolve

That's nice but it's wrong. I suggest you restore ownership and access rights before doing anything else because you're unnecessarily complicating things that way.

Has Apache ever worked or is this your first attempt at installing?
What method did you use to install? Did you use something like tasksel from the Software Manager? I know in Ubuntu and some of its derivatives you can install LAMP with a single command which includes any dependencies. What are the user:group in the /var/www directory/sub-directories?

@arun5002


Both of the commands you suggested to run return the following:

*************-Laptop ~ $ apache2ctl -t
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 171: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /etc/apache2: Permission denied
Action '-t' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.


*************-Laptop ~ $ apache2ctl -S
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 171: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /etc/apache2: Permission denied
Action '-S' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.


Thanks for your support

@unSpawn


I have restored ownership thanks for telling me this....I was a little shakey for doing that Although I thought it was right because when I start apache2 one of the errors that came up was a Permission Denied error so I assumed Well if I give myself ownership That should fix it, I was wrong Thanks



@yancek


This is my first time installing it and I think I only installed Apache2....with

$Sudo apt-get install apache2

I guess that you are trying to start Apache with non root priviledge .

Try the below commands



#sudo service apache2 restart


#sudo apache2ctl -t

****************-Laptop ~ $ sudo service apache2 restart
[sudo] password for ********:
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 161: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /etc/apache2: Permission denied
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
...fail!

What does '\ls -ald /usr/sbin/apache2ctl /etc/apache2 /var/www /var/log /var/log/apache2' return?

************-Laptop ~ $ \ls -ald /usr/sbin/apache2ctl /etc/apache2 /var/www /var/log /var/log/apache2


drwxr-xrwx 7 MyUser adm 4096 Jul 2 10:10 /etc/apache2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 MyUser root 6185 Jul 5 12:54 /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jul 10 10:23 /var/log
drwxr-x--- 2 MyUser adm 4096 Jun 17 01:54 /var/log/apache2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 4 16:05 /var/www

Reread post #7 and follow that advice.

How would I go about setting all the files back to default owner/group?

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Should I switch everything to root owner/group?