Apache Won't Start - No Errors

[AJStiles]

WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.8.2-R119
RedHat 7.3 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

Apache won't start on my box and I can't find any errors relating to the problem.

/usr/local/bin/apachectl configtest gives my "Syntax OK"
/usr/local/bin/apachectl start gives me "httpd started"
/usr/local/bin/apachectl restart gives me "httpd not running, trying to start" "httpd started"

However, it isn't started, no processes found, no errors in error_log.

Any ideas?

[Manuel_accu]

hi,

What it is showing in /var/log/messages when you start or restart apache?

thx

[AJStiles]

Nothing is written to /var/log/messages when I attempt to start (or restart) apache.

[AJStiles]

As noted in the original post, configtest returns "Syntax OK".

Laus is not installed. "error: package laus is not installed".

Thanks for trying.

Adam

[AndyReed]

Nothing is written to /var/log/messages when I attempt to start (or restart) apache.

check the validity of httpd.conf syntax:
/sbin/service httpd configtest
You also need to make sure that laus is not installed on your server:
rpm -e laus

[AndyReed]

As noted in the original post, configtest returns "Syntax OK".

Laus is not installed. "error: package laus is not installed".

There must be something stopping or blocking Apache, could be a corrupted module and/or a library.

[moogle]

Does it allow you to run the Apache update in WHM?

[AJStiles]

Yes - I can do a full rebuild using WHM or /script/easyapache.

Here's the end result:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start: httpd started
Attempting to restart httpd 	
Waiting for httpd to restart....
.
finished.
httpd status
httpd has failed, please contact the sysadmin.

[neonix]

Hi,

Did you install Zend?..I had a similar problem and Zend was the culprit..,

[AJStiles]

No zend. I tried installing it, that didn't help either. Commented it out in php.ini, attempted to start Apache. No dice.

[moogle]

Long shot, but did you try rebooting?

I know sometimes when this comes up rebooting kills off whatever the problem was and allows apache to start again.

[bhd]

We had exactly the same problem on a RHE server. I looked everywhere, every log file I could find and nothing was out of the ordinary.

Eventually we fixed it by running easyapache with the advanced (7) option and checked the "download modules even if they are up to date" and all was fine.

[AJStiles]

Rebooting took care of it... should have tried that earlier. I wish I knew what the problem was though. Thanks for you help all.

Adam

[Stephanie_R]

That quite often happens when apache has stale PID's or a socket is still open.

Even when ps -ef|grep httpd shows no processes the socket can still be held open.

/etd/init.d/httpd stop
killall httpd (till no process killed)
/etc/init.d/httpd startssl


If the server has resin installed you should also check in /tmp for a file named:
localhost_6802 and remove it.

Just a couple of ideas, but you may have already tried these at the time.

[beehave]

Did you ever find a soloution to this? I have two servers doing the same thing about once a week. The only wway to get httpd back up is to reboot server. None of the above work.