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Greg_the_Ant
Asked: 2011-07-08 04:41:09 +0800 CST

Can't restart Apache (HTTPD)

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Apache has been running fine for months and restarts have run fine.

However I went to restart it today and got this:

[django - pin@e02u35]~>sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
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Starting httpd:                                            [FAILED]

All I find in /var/log/httpd/error_log is this but I'm not sure if it's related:

[Thu Jul 07 08:19:25 2011] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Jul 07 08:19:25 2011] [error] Unable to change directory to /home/pin

If it matters, there's nothing in my home directory that httpd should be looking at. It should be running as the apache user and nothing in httpd.conf nor in my code references my home directory.

I'm stuck. Does anyone know how I can get more information about what's going wrong, or what might fix this?

System Info

Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
linux redhat apache-2.2 django httpd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Update: I got it working using sudo service httpd start. Why in the world would that matter? I'm still curious if anyone has any ideas what could be going on.

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  2. I think is not your home directory what apache is looking for, is the current working directory. I believe apache expect to be run from /etc/httpd. You should report a bug, the startup script should change to it automatically.

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