Apache not working after installing mysql and php

alaateb · 04-19-2005, 04:42 AM

Hi! I am a newbie. I use Suse 9.1.

I setup apache 2 and it was working fine for 2 months. A few days ago I installed mysql and php. Apache stopped working. I uninstalled apache, php and mysql and reinstalled apache. Still apache did not work.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

sgrayban · 04-19-2005, 10:16 AM

And the errors are?

alaateb · 04-21-2005, 03:03 AM

In /var/log/apache2/error_log the following messages are recorded:

[error] (5)Input/output error: could not create /var/run/httpd2.pid
[error] httpd2-prefork: could not log pid to file /var/run/httpd2.pid

The above messages are added every time I type the following:

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

sgrayban · 04-21-2005, 04:40 AM

do i even need to say whats wrong?

jrbush82 · 04-21-2005, 07:18 AM

most likely the file exists and is locked, delete the file by typing:

rm -f /var/run/httpd2.pid

then give it another shot

alaateb · 04-22-2005, 08:05 AM

Thank you. Apache is working now.

Could you please tell me how to avoid the file getting locked?

Thank you once again.

jrbush82 · 04-22-2005, 09:24 AM

It is not a common problem from my experience, but killing a program without actuallying doing it correctly can leave stuff behind.