Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

[Simon]

Have you done an upgrade/update of apache lately?

Whenever apache gets updated here, two files are recreated each time.
If you look in /etc/apache2, it should look like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6311 Sep  2 03:23 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12958 Sep  8 16:52 magic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  8 22:50 modules.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  8 16:53 ssl
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 16 07:59 vhosts.d

Reading through httpd.conf, you should find the lines:
----
# Virtual-host support
#
# Gentoo has made using virtual-hosts easy. In /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ we
# include a default vhost (enabled by adding -D DEFAULT_VHOST to
# APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2).
Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf
----

And looking through /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/, you should find all your own virtual 
servers, I name mine as per the port they use:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  565 Sep  1 07:55 80.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  368 Sep 16 07:57 8080.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K Sep  8 16:52 default_vhost.include

I don't have the two files that are recreated each time here, but they contain a 
configuration similar to the one in my 80.conf.  Thus, it load my 80.conf, and 
then tries to load its own default_80.conf (or something like that) and 
conflicts since the port 80 is already in use (by another vhost).

2 ways to solve this:  either use those default file names for your own vhost 
configuration so portage will ask you to update /etc files interactively, or 
delete those 2 files each and every time you update apache.  I have never looked 
into that but maybe by removing the option -D DEFAULT_VHOST in you 
/etc/conf.d/apache2 might do the trick also.

HTH,
   Simon


Adam Carter wrote:
> rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>  * Starting apache2 ...
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs                                                       [ ok ]
> rix adam #
>
> The socket is not in use and log dir perms are ok, and;
>
> rix adam # apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> rix adam # pgrep -lf apach
> 17740 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> 17741 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> 17744 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> 17772 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> rix adam #
>
> So, how do I troubleshoot this?
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