Re: Mystifying start failure

[Yehuda Katz <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

systemd doesn't know to look in the HTTPD log file. What does that log say?

Likely located in /var/log/apache2/

- Y

On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 9:58 AM jnilles@xxxxxxxx <jnilles@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently rebooted the server and started apache only to get a failure. Here's the diagnosis; I'm not sure what to make of it.

 systemctl status apache2.service

● apache2.service - The Apache Webserver

     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-05-30 06:53:28 PDT; 23s ago

    Process: 23499 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start_apache2 -DSYSTEMD -DFOREGROUND -k start (code=exited, status=1/>

   Main PID: 23499 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

     Status: "Reading configuration..."

May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: Starting The Apache Webserver...

May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: apache2.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache Webserver.