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  4. Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

Added by Nathan Petralia over 8 years ago

After rebooting the server, openproject failed to start.
This is the error…

Job for apache2.service failed. See ‘systemctl status apache2.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
root@svnserver:/var/log/apache2# systemctl status apache2.service
● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-09-05 11:26:10 HKT; 9s ago
Process: 4926 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 4478 ExecReload=/etc/init.d/apache2 reload (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 5128 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: Starting web server: apache2 failed!
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: The apache2 configtest failed. … (warning).
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: Output of config test was:
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: apache2: Syntax error on line 219 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/openproject.conf: No matches for the wildcard ‘*.conf’ in ‘/etc/openproject/addons/apache2/includes/server’, failing (use IncludeOptional if required)
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: Action ‘configtest’ failed.
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver apache2[5128]: The Apache error log may have more information.
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver systemd[1]: apache2.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.
Sep 05 11:26:10 svnserver systemd[1]: Unit apache2.service entered failed state.

I have added IncludeOptional in the apache2.conf (was already there) and in openproject.conf (only had Include).

I don’t know what else to do.

Also both /var/log/apache2/access.log and /var/log/apache2/error.log are empty… is that even normal?


Replies (1)

RE: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server. - Added by Oliver Jakobi over 8 years ago

Hi Nathan,

did you install via package install?
If so, did you choose to configure apache2, or did you skip it?

What does “ls /etc/openproject/addons/apache2/includes/server” show you? Is the directory empty?

If you issue an “curl 127.0.0.1:6000” (only if you used package install!!), what is the output?

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