Apache / httpd restart / startup failed without errors

[Aldert]

I don't want you bother with my problems so I searched for 2 hours over the web for a solution for what I'm experiencing now. My apache is broken, but throws no errors. That makes it impossible to resolve it for me. The only thing error_log states:

[Thu Dec 27 19:15:08 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Dec 27 19:15:23 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Dec 27 19:16:45 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Dec 27 19:19:13 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)

(SElinux is disabled as far as I know)

My apache was working well, till I needed to start ISP config again. That broke my server in some kind of way (really vague), httpd stopped. The server has been restarted, but that also restarted the ISP config server. The httpd server still didnt want to start (all other services do).

I uninstalled httpd and its dependencies and reinstalled them (using yum), using the new configs to test. No luck, still stopping w/o an error. There are no problems with modules as far as I can see. The error_log stays empty, debug level startup says nothing special, only messages log file says startup failed... (Dec 27 18:45:36 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd shutdown failed
Dec 27 18:52:10 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd startup failed)

The only value information for debugging this might be:
https://aerotronic.nl:81/stracehttpd.txt

I disabled the certificates by commenting those lines, it otherwise stopped at localhost.key or my website's certificate...

Thanks so much in advance for pointing me further!

I'm using CentOS 4.4, according to the perfect setup of this site.

[chipsafts]

I'd give WebMin a shot at helping you debug the issue.

[Aldert]

Thanks for your reply, I directly liked Webmin better :-)

Anyways, it (of course) doesn't solve the problem httpd is having. Webmin can also not start apache.

I'll now disable ISPconfig, and ask to reboot the server.

[Aldert]

Sorry for the double post. I rebooted the system w/o ISP config. Still no luck, httpd doesn't want to start...

After this part httpd didn't want to get alive anymore. So after the restart of named.

Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: shutting down: flushing changes
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: stopping command channel on ::1#953
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: no longer listening on 87.249.105.146#53
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: no longer listening on 87.249.105.147#53
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named[19079]: exiting
Dec 27 16:37:40 aerotronicvds named: succeeded
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named -t /var/named/chroot
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: using 1 CPU
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 87.249.105.146#53
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:0, 87.249.105.147#53
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1
Dec 27 16:37:42 aerotronicvds named[19990]: zone 105.249.87.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2007111101
Dec 27 16:37:43 aerotronicvds named[19990]: zone aerotronic.nl/IN: loaded serial 2007122701
Dec 27 16:37:43 aerotronicvds named[19990]: running
Dec 27 16:37:43 aerotronicvds named: named startup succeeded
Dec 27 16:39:08 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Dec 27 16:39:08 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd startup failed
Dec 27 16:39:08 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd shutdown failed
Dec 27 16:39:08 aerotronicvds httpd: httpd startup failed

[chipsafts]

There isn't a directory called httpd
in your log directory?
Try 'locate access_log' , in the same directory should be error_log .

[falko]

What's the output of

netstat -tap

,

httpd -t

, and

df -h

?