apache cannot start after creating a new site

[orasis]

I made a new site yesterday with all default settings, didn't touch anything except I created a db for it to mess with some old db I had etc.

today I run ubuntu again and apache won't start
I run:
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

and get:

 * Starting web server apache2                                                                                                                                                                                    Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/example.bounceme.net/web] does not exist
Syntax error on line 54 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.bounceme.net.vhost:
can't get fastcgi file info: /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter(/var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter), errno: 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                           [fail]

contents of example.bounceme.net.vhost are:

<Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web
  
    ServerName example.bounceme.net
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.bounceme.net

    ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/example.bounceme.net/error.log

    ErrorDocument 400 /error/400.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html
    ErrorDocument 405 /error/405.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.html
    ErrorDocument 503 /error/503.html
    
    <Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client3/web2/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # Clear PHP settings of this website
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
        SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
    # php as fast-cgi enabled
    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
      # SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock/
      IdleTimeout 3600
      ProcessLifeTime 7200
      # MaxProcessCount 1000
      DefaultMinClassProcessCount 3
      DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100
      IPCConnectTimeout 8
      IPCCommTimeout 360
      BusyTimeout 300
    </IfModule>
    <Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client3/web2/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # add support for apache mpm_itk
    <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
      AssignUserId web2 client3
    </IfModule>


</VirtualHost>

any help please ? I am noob and only solution for me without a help will be to reinstall server ... much mess !
any help appreciated

[orasis]

very nice

guess what. I reinstalled the server all from scratch.
created a new site, made a db and an ftp user for it.

all connected fine except ftp user.

so I restarted computer.
same result as above but with web1 this time.

it was working perfect. go NO IDEA what went wrong with it....

edit: I am following this step by step and doing it all perfect:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...10-ispconfig-3


the exact msg I get on terminal after apache restart is this:

* Restarting web server apache2
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/example.bounceme.net/web] does not exist
apache2: bad user name web1

[orasis]

well I am reinstalling again (HAPPY HOURS !!)

some comments I would like you to clear for me if possible,
I always get stuck at this point on this page:
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3] - Page 4
Next we install maildrop as follows:

update-alternatives --remove-all maildir.5
update-alternatives --remove-all maildirquota.7

I get the this on terminal:
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for maildir.5.

so searching for this I found this topic:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43518

.. and this rsd-17 guy suggests to do place them like this that doesn't give back an error so this is what I do:

update-alternatives --remove-all maildir.5.gz
update-alternatives --remove-all maildirquota.7.gz

hope this is not what causes the mess !

[till]

As you reinstalled the server, we are not able to help you with fixing the problem.

[orasis]

sure............................

[till]

How shall we able to help you when you remove the files that caused the problem. You are really funny.

If your car is not working and you go to a garage and ask them what the problem is. They tell you to show them the car and then you say, oh, you want to see my car. I dont have it anymore....

[orasis]

of course this is absolutely logical, of course I know that, but thanks for explaining.

All I mean is, I got no idea how it happened. Now it works because I didn't touch the php.ini files yet.

When it comes to this moment I think the problem will come back !

[till]

You have not mentioned in your prior posts that the problems started after you changed a php.ini file. If you say what you changed in the php.ini, we might be able to tell you why it caused that problemand how to solve it.

[orasis]

I agree, but now, cause when it happened I didn't know such changes can screw it,
All I had changed was these:

/etc/php5/cgi/
/etc/php5/apache2/
/etc/php5/cli/

changes:
display_errors = Off
disable_functions = show_source, system, shell_exec, passthru, exec, phpinfo, popen, proc_open
allow_url_fopen = Off
memory_limit = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 50M
post_max_size = 64M
max_execution_time = 300
session.gc_maxlifetime = 10000


make ftpd show hidden files:
echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DisplayDotFiles


you think those could affect ?

[till]

The problem was that you disabled system, shell_exec, passthru, exec, popen, proc_open for cli-php. ISPConfig is a php script and if you disable exec for commandline scripts, then you disable the ability that ispconfig can configure your server. Disabling exec for php-cli is not nescessary as it is already a commandline script itself.