Apache, Problem Failed To Start LSB: Apache2 Web Server


Answer :

There are two errors:


1. For some reason your /etc/apache2/envvars is missing:

  • from journalctl -xe:

    Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found ...         Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found 
  • from systemctl status apache2.service:

    Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found 

In my system this file has next permissions:

$ ls -l /etc/apache2/envvars  -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1782 мар 19  2016 envvars 

And its content ($ cat /etc/apache2/envvars) is:

# envvars - default environment variables for apache2ctl  # this won't be correct after changing uid unset HOME  # for supporting multiple apache2 instances if [ "${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}" != "${APACHE_CONFDIR}" ] ; then         SUFFIX="-${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}" else         SUFFIX= fi  # Since there is no sane way to get the parsed apache2 config in scripts, some # settings are defined via environment variables and then used in apache2ctl, # /etc/init.d/apache2, /etc/logrotate.d/apache2, etc. export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data # temporary state file location. This might be changed to /run in Wheezy+1 export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2/apache2$SUFFIX.pid export APACHE_RUN_DIR=/var/run/apache2$SUFFIX export APACHE_LOCK_DIR=/var/lock/apache2$SUFFIX # Only /var/log/apache2 is handled by /etc/logrotate.d/apache2. export APACHE_LOG_DIR=/var/log/apache2$SUFFIX  ## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav export LANG=C ## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead: #. /etc/default/locale  export LANG  ## The command to get the status for 'apache2ctl status'. ## Some packages providing 'www-browser' need '--dump' instead of '-dump'. #export APACHE_LYNX='www-browser -dump'  ## If you need a higher file descriptor limit, uncomment and adjust the ## following line (default is 8192): #APACHE_ULIMIT_MAX_FILES='ulimit -n 65536'  ## If you would like to pass arguments to the web server, add them below ## to the APACHE_ARGUMENTS environment. #export APACHE_ARGUMENTS=''  ## Enable the debug mode for maintainer scripts. ## This will produce a verbose output on package installations of web server mod                                               ules and web application ## installations which interact with Apache #export APACHE2_MAINTSCRIPT_DEBUG=1 

You can create it manually: sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars, paste above content inside, save ctrl+o and exit ctrl+x.


2. In your system, the folder /etc/apache2/logs also missing:

  • from journalctl -xe:

    Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log 
  • from systemctl status apache2.service:

    Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log 

This is not the default log folder, it is defined in your custom configuration, and must be created:

$ sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/logs 

I deleted .conf files in sites-available and did not delete the link files in sites- enabled .

Now I deleted those all files in sites-enabled

restarted apache2 server (sudo service apache2 restart)

worked for me

hope this might help someone :)


I had the same problem. I got the same error with sudo service apache2 restart and ran sudo systemctl status apache2.service and the red line was Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

Solution

run the bellow command:

sudo apache2ctl configtest 

It'll check for errors (Syntax errors I think) and then you can debug the error.


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