Re: Problem with Apache2 after upgrade from Ubuntu14.04 to 16.04

[Mitchell Krog Photography <mitchellkrog@xxxxxxxxx>]

My experience with upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 is apache does not upgrade well at all, had it happen on several servers already in the past.

I would suggest backup your entire etc/apache2 folder or rename it /etc/apache_backup/

Then uninstall apache and purge it, uninstall PHP and purge it and then reinstall both Apache and PHP

Then you will get a clean Apache with PHP 7, then move your sites back into /etc/apache2/sites-available/ one at a time, enable them one at a time and test as you go along.

Good luck

From: Purvez <purvez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 April 2017 at 1:35:12 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  Problem with Apache2 after upgrade from Ubuntu14.04 to 16.04

Hi

Newbie to the forum here so I hope I'm doing this right.  If not please would someone guide me.  Thx in advance.

As the subject line says Apache2 is not working at all / satisfactorily since the Ubuntu upgrade.  The details follow:

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Here is my full post on askubuntu:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/904042/upgrade-to-16-04-lts-has-broken-apache

Currently the biggest help I could get would be if someone would decipher what the following output means when I do :

systemctl status apache2.service

output:
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Code:

purvez@127:~$ systemctl status apache2.service
● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
           └─apache2-systemd.conf
   Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2017-04-13 10:01:02 BST; 11s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 6997 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 6978 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: AH00015: Unable to open logs
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: Action 'start' failed.
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: The Apache error log may have more information.
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]:  *
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6997]:  * Stopping Apache httpd web server apache2
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6997]:  *
Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Apache2 web server.
purvez@127:~$

The MAIN question is : Is Apache started and functioning or is it inactive (dead)?

The last line of the output suggests that it is working but the 5th / 6th line from the top suggests the opposite.

The errorlog is blank and the accesslog is blank as well since the day of the upgrade.
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Thanks in advance

Purvez