Updating Apache Crashes Server

The Update Apache tool in WHM seems faulty. Items I had checked off before were unchecked. Why? So I rechecked the items and ran it only to get the dreaded "httpd has failed, please contact the sysadmin" message. It will not restart. Here's part of the log in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log:

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[Sun May 1 12:03:05 2005] [error] [client 68.142.250.49] File does not exist: /home/talkandm/public_html/forums/printthread.php
[Sun May 1 12:03:05 2005] [error] [client 68.142.250.49] File does not exist: /home/talkandm/public_html/404.shtml
[Sun May 1 12:06:07 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun May 1 12:06:11 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4$
[Sun May 1 12:06:11 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Sun May 1 12:06:11 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
2005-05-01 12:06:11 1DSGxP-0000d5-Tz Rewrite of nobody@host.domain.com yielded unparseable address: malformed address$
2005-05-01 12:06:11 1DSGxP-0000d5-Tz Rewrite of nobody@host.domain.com yielded unparseable address: malformed address$
[Sun May 1 12:09:39 2005] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Sun May 1 12:09:39 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4$
[Sun May 1 12:09:39 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Sun May 1 12:09:39 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

What's the sense of checking off what mods you want installed if WHM ignores them on the next update? How do you get around this?

 

I cannot get back into WHM to do that. I get a ""connection refused" error. What now?

 

I'll answer my own question...I used easyapache through SSH and chose Option 6. Apache is recompiling as I write, but it has already given me this error:

Syntax error on line 539 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
ErrorLog not allowed here
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start: httpd could not be started

I never put an ErrorLog there. Any geniuses out there? I need some heavy duty help.

 

root@host [~]# httpd configtest
Syntax OK
root@host [~]#

I added

NameVirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

as a single entry above

VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

in the httpd.conf
and the error stopped.