Debian4, New Install, Web Server won't start

[BorderAmigos]

After messing up my Fedora install beyond repair I decided to start fresh with a different distro. Per recommendations here I installed Debian 4.0 (etch) from scratch according to "The Perfect Setup" instructions.

Additionally I installed NVIDIA video drivers and Webmin.

After installing ISPConfig DNS and Web-Server both show offline. Adjusting name server domains got DNS going. But I can't get Apache2 going still. Searching here for solutions, many of the directories mentioned don't seem to exist on my system. I re-installed ISPConfig with no change.

I can access the IPConfig administration on 81 and the Webmin on 10000 without any problems.

SuExec is disabled. Firewall is off for now.

Here are some outputs...

/var/log/apache2/error.log
unable to start piped log program ' /usr/sbin/vlogger -s access.log /var/log/ispconfig/httpd': No such file or directory
Unable to open logs

(I created a new text file /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/access.log but it didn't help).


> netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:50368 *:* LISTEN 3198/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 localhost:10025 *:* LISTEN 3446/master
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 2730/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 2397/portmap
tcp 0 0 *:webmin *:* LISTEN 3524/perl
tcp 0 0 *:81 *:* LISTEN 3337/ispconfig_http
tcp 0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN 3031/inetd
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 3504/proftpd: (acce
tcp 0 0 host.servidora.n:domain *:* LISTEN 3483/named
tcp 0 0 localhost:domain *:* LISTEN 3483/named
tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN 2922/cupsd
tcp 0 0 localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 3483/named
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 3446/master
tcp 1 0 localhost:smtp localhost:42251 CLOSE_WAIT -
tcp 1 0 localhost:smtp localhost:42256 CLOSE_WAIT -
tcp 0 1492 host.servidora.n:webmin cpe-72-130-158-54.:1359 ESTABLISHED4687/index.cgi
tcp 1 0 localhost:smtp localhost:36669 CLOSE_WAIT -
tcp6 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 2877/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 *:pop3s *:* LISTEN 2896/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 2882/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN 2865/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 3123/sshd
tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 3483/named
tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 3446/master

> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Starting web server (apache2)...[Sat Jun 14 10:39:22 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.100:80 has no VirtualHosts
[Sat Jun 14 10:39:22 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.100:80 has no VirtualHosts
failed!

[BorderAmigos]

I found the following in another thread and it seems to solve the issue...


... comment out the line Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

[...]
# Include the virtual host configurations:
#Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
[...]

[mihai331]

I found in the sites-enabled directory a link, called ispconfig.conf (or something with isp in it's name)

delete the link and apache2 will start working again.

[till]

You posted here in the ispconfig 2 forum but the file you deleted belongs to ISPConfig 3. So the question is, which ispconfig version did you install? ISPConfig 2 qnd 3 are completely different sotware packages which use different configurations.

[mihai331]

My mistake. I didn't notice that this thread was for ispconfig 2, but I had the same behavior of the webserver, and the solution was working fine.

[till]

No wonder that it dont workes. You can not install ispconfig 2 on a server that had ispconfig 3 installed or vice versa. You have to format the server and then reinstall it eaxctly as described in the perfect setup guide for the ispconfig version you use. If you did not follow the guides exactly, then your install will not work as not all system requiremenst are installed.