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Installation on Debian lenny fails due to new style of apache.conf

I recently updated apache2 to the version in "testing". The reason was that the version in Debian 4.0 "etch" did not support setting the charset of generated directory indexes. I continued to track apache2 in "testing" for some time. I was busy with other things and missed a couple of point releases of ISPConfig. Today I tried to upgrade from 2.2.18 to latest and greatest 2.2.21. The setup script bailed out with the error:

Code:

Checking the syntax of the httpd.conf...

httpd: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

ERROR: The syntax of your httpd.conf is not ok! Please correct the error. The installation routine stops here!

The cause of the problem is that user and group are pulled from environment.

Code:

# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars

User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}

I am writing this for falko and till to be aware of the new style of Debian's apache.conf

I have changed them back to

Code:

User www-data

Group www-data

And now watching the setup script to do its job.

As of 2.2.23, the problem remains.

The problem was fixed in 2.2.23... :confused:

I will look into that. That may be my fault as I manually migrated ISPConfig installation from one server to another. This required a lot of manual labour including editing of /etc/passwd and other related files, manually copying the /home/admispcong and /root/ispconfig and dumping, editing (for new IPs) and restoring the ispconfig database.

Currently, this "installation" is at 2.2.21.

I will return to this problem on friday.

The problem likely was that the code below was never called.
It may be skipped when the setup detected that the current invocation was an upgrade, I did not dig enough into code paths. It probably should create the link in any scenario: on upgrade and initial install...

Code:

  echo

  echo "########## WEB SERVER ##########"

  echo

  which httpd > /dev/null

  if [ $? != 0 ]; then

    which apache > /dev/null

    if [ $? == 0 ]; then

      ln -s `which apache` /usr/bin/httpd

    fi

    which apache2 > /dev/null

    if [ $? == 0 ]; then

      ln -s `which apache2` /usr/bin/httpd

    fi

  fi

As of 2.2.25 it is still an issue...

httpd: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

I noticed this issue on a new install (ubuntu 8.04, ISPConfig-2.2.30) after changing site domains a few times: Vhost.

ls -l /etc/apache2/vhosts/
total 168
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1990 2009-05-11 21:47 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3529 2009-05-11 15:42 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_11-05-09_15-42-47
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3529 2009-05-11 17:30 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_11-05-09_17-30-39
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3529 2009-05-11 17:32 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_11-05-09_17-32-03
... many more

httpd -t
httpd: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

Not resolved after upgrade to ISPConfig-2.2.32. Content of Vhosts_ispconfig.conf

###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 192.168.4.136:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.4.136:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: dev.PRIVATE.org:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 192.168.4.136:80>
ServerName dev.PRIVATE.org:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@PRIVATE.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/web9/web
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
ErrorLog /var/www/web9/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc .wsc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .ws .wmlscript
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web9/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web9/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web9/user/$1/web/$3
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Alias /webdav /var/www/web9/web
<Location /webdav>
DAV On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "webdav"
AuthUserFile /var/www/web9/passwd.dav
Require valid-user
</Location>
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

Content of /etc/apache2/envars

# envvars - default environment variables for apache2ctl

# 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
export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid

Help please!

A few min after above, i deleted the ssl Vhosts then worked ok. But httpd -t still shows

httpd: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

How do we install pre-existing SSL (key, crt, and ca_bundle/chain)?