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JohnB
Asked: 2010-09-21 10:37:56 +0800 CST

apache won't start up

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we just got through a power outage. All our servers came back up properly, except out web server gives me this error when attempting to start apache:

# apachectl start
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

I've verified that there are no processes using the port apache is configured to listen on, and I can't fine apache running in ps aux. Does anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting this?

apache-2.2 freebsd

4 Answers

  1. 127.0.0.1 DNS servers, can you check in your /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 then try to start the services

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  2. Is anything else listening on port 80? netstat -nlt show anything else on 80?

    Has servername changed and/or resolv.conf not able to do a reverse lookup on starting up apache.

    Does hostname -f resolve properly?

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  3. Apache won't start if it can't log. The second line, Unable to open logs, jumps out at me more so than the first.

    Check to make sure that there's enough disk space for the path which you are logging.

    df -H

    Also, verify permissions for the logging directory and files.

    ls -al /var/log/httpd

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  4. Best Answer

    Ok, I figured out the problem - sorry the answer is so late in coming, things are really busy here. Thanks for all your help!

    The problem was that this server has a special setup, and I needed to pass apachectl the -d SSL option for it to start.

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