Trust me. it’s the safest way to know you are starting off clean and have no remnants that didn’t upgrade properly, there were a number of deprecations from old to new Apache and they do not upgrade nicely.
And it really does not take that long, it should take you (depending on how many sites) that entire fresh upgrade in under an hour.
For me when I had to do it after one upgrade from 14 > 16 I had 18 sites, it took me barely an hour and everything was fresh and working properly, then I moved to Nginx a few months later but that was for other reasons.
Tell me about it ….. the things we have to do !!! LOL
But just bite the bullet and start fresh, then you know you are fresh and squeaky clean
Cheers Mitch
Hi Mitchell
Many thanks for your response. I'm coming to the same
conclusion as you. Best to cut my losses and rebuild Apache
and PHP....but I HATE not knowing what went wrong. So...I'm
going to spend some time getting to the bottom of the
problem...whilst being pragmatic and building my production server
with apache and php again to get back to 'real life'!! Ugh
the things we have to do to survive in this game!! LOL.
On 18/04/17 12:59, Mitchell Krog
Photography wrote:
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
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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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:~$
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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.
===========================
Thanks in advance
Purvez
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