httpd wont start - log files deleted

[varamus]

Hi all,

Real newbie to all of this and im having problems getting the httpd service to start. Instead of clearing my log files in var/log i accidently did a force remove command on all the log files within the log directory. I'm not unable to start my httpd service and of course unable to check my log files to see whats what.

Any ideas ?

Thanks!!

[Nagarjuna]

Hey Varamus,

Woops! I'm no pro, but try this out:

mkdir /var/log/httpd 
touch /var/log/httpd/error_log

This should be all the necessary log files for Apache to start.

[varamus]

Hi thanks for your reply. I've actually already tried to recreating those files/folders before but it didnt solve it unfortunately... ;(

any other ideas? I'm at a complete loss here!

Thanks guys!

[paulb2010]

Try running this to see where it fails:

sh -x /etc/init.d/httpd start

[masksasi]

helo varamus,


please give the error which u faced,

[varamus]

thanks guys, this is the error output from said command

+ . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
++ TEXTDOMAIN=initscripts
++ umask 022
++ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
++ export PATH
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ COLUMNS=80
++ '[' -z '' ']'
+++ /sbin/consoletype
++ CONSOLETYPE=pty
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n -a -z '' ']'
++ . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
+++ sourced=0
+++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n'
+++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ']'
+++ . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
++++ LANG=en_GB
++++ SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
+++ sourced=1
+++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n'
+++ '[' -f /root/.i18n ']'
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
+++ '[' -n en_GB ']'
+++ export LANG
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_ADDRESS
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_CTYPE
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_COLLATE
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_IDENTIFICATION
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_MEASUREMENT
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_MESSAGES
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_MONETARY
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_NAME
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_NUMERIC
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_PAPER
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_TELEPHONE
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_TIME
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LC_ALL
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LANGUAGE
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset LINGUAS
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ unset _XKB_CHARSET
+++ consoletype=pty
+++ '[' -z pty ']'
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ '[' -n '' ']'
+++ '[' -n en_GB ']'
+++ case $LANG in
+++ '[' xterm = linux ']'
+++ unset SYSFONTACM SYSFONT
+++ unset sourced
+++ unset langfile
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']'
++ . /etc/sysconfig/init
+++ BOOTUP=color
+++ GRAPHICAL=yes
+++ RES_COL=60
+++ MOVE_TO_COL='echo -en \033[60G'
+++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS='echo -en \033[0;32m'
+++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE='echo -en \033[0;31m'
+++ SETCOLOR_WARNING='echo -en \033[0;33m'
+++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL='echo -en \033[0;39m'
+++ LOGLEVEL=3
+++ PROMPT=yes
+++ AUTOSWAP=no
++ '[' pty = serial ']'
++ '[' color '!=' verbose ']'
++ INITLOG_ARGS=-q
++ __sed_discard_ignored_files='/\(~\|\.bak\|\.orig\|\.rpmnew\|\.rpmorig\|\.rpms                                                                                                                                                             ave\)$/d'
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/httpd ']'
+ . /etc/sysconfig/httpd
+ HTTPD_LANG=C
+ INITLOG_ARGS=
+ apachectl=/usr/sbin/apachectl
+ httpd=/usr/sbin/httpd
+ prog=httpd
+ pidfile=/var/run/httpd.pid
+ lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/httpd
+ RETVAL=0
+ case "$1" in
+ start
+ echo -n 'Starting httpd: '
Starting httpd: + check13
+ CONFFILE=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
+ GONE='(ServerType|BindAddress|Port|AddModule|ClearModuleList|'
+ GONE='(ServerType|BindAddress|Port|AddModule|ClearModuleList|AgentLog|RefererL                                                                                                                                                             og|RefererIgnore|FancyIndexing|'
+ GONE='(ServerType|BindAddress|Port|AddModule|ClearModuleList|AgentLog|RefererL                                                                                                                                                             og|RefererIgnore|FancyIndexing|AccessConfig|ResourceConfig)'
+ LANG=C
+ grep -Eiq '^[[:space:]]*((ServerType|BindAddress|Port|AddModule|ClearModuleLis                                                                                                                                                             t|AgentLog|RefererLog|RefererIgnore|FancyIndexing|AccessConfig|ResourceConfig))'                                                                                                                                                              /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
+ LANG=C
+ daemon --pidfile=/var/run/httpd.pid /usr/sbin/httpd
+ local gotbase= force= nicelevel corelimit
+ local pid base= user= nice= bg= pid_file=
+ nicelevel=0
+ '[' --pidfile=/var/run/httpd.pid '!=' -pidfile=/var/run/httpd.pid ']'
+ case $1 in
+ pid_file=/var/run/httpd.pid
+ shift
+ '[' /usr/sbin/httpd '!=' /usr/sbin/httpd ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ base=httpd
+ __pids_var_run httpd /var/run/httpd.pid
+ local base=httpd
+ local pid_file=/var/run/httpd.pid
+ pid=
+ '[' -f /var/run/httpd.pid ']'
+ return 3
+ '[' -n '' -a -z '' ']'
+ corelimit='ulimit -S -c 0'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' color = verbose -a -z '' ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ /bin/bash -c 'ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; /usr/sbin/httpd'
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ failure 'httpd startup'
+ local rc=1
+ '[' color '!=' verbose -a -z '' ']'
+ echo_failure
+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[60G'
                                                           + echo -n '['
[+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[0;31m'
+ echo -n FAILED
FAILED+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[0;39m'
+ echo -n ']'
]+ echo -ne '\r'
+ return 1
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/rhgb-client ']'
+ return 1
+ RETVAL=1
+ echo

+ '[' 1 = 0 ']'
+ return 1
+ exit 1

FAILED+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[0;39m'
+ echo -n ']'
]+ echo -ne '\r'

[paulb2010]

What is the output if you run this:

/usr/sbin/httpd

[varamus]

What is the output if you run this:

/usr/sbin/httpd

hi paul,

am i just typing that in directly? if so it doesn't do anything. i also tried navigating to it but theres not httpd folder inside /usr/sbin

thanks

[abarclay]

If re-creating the log files didn't seem to work, you could always go back-to-basics.... Remove and re-install the httpd package.
You don't mention your distribution, but if it's rpm-based, you could do something like:
# rpm -e httpd
# yum install httpd

[varamus]

If re-creating the log files didn't seem to work, you could always go back-to-basics.... Remove and re-install the httpd package.
You don't mention your distribution, but if it's rpm-based, you could do something like:
# rpm -e httpd
# yum install httpd

hi abarclay,

It won't let me uninstall the httpd package as i get the following:

rpm -e httpd
error: Failed dependencies:
        httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed) mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5.x86_64
        httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed) mod_python-3.2.8-3.1.x86_64
        httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed) mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.x86_64
        httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by (installed) php-5.2.17-1.el5.art.x86_64
        webserver is needed by (installed) webalizer-2.01_10-30.1.x86_64
        httpd is needed by (installed) psa-9.2.2-cos5.build92090714.19.x86_64
        httpd is needed by (installed) awstats-6.6-1.swsoft.noarch
        httpd is needed by (installed) psa-mod_fcgid-1.10-3.x86_64
        httpd is needed by (installed) mod_bw-0.8-5.x86_64
        httpd >= 2.0.40 is needed by (installed) mod_python-3.2.8-3.1.x86_64
        httpd is needed by (installed) mailman-2.1.9-4.el5.x86_64
        httpd = 0:2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3 is needed by (installed) mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.x86_64
        httpd = 2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3 is needed by (installed) httpd-devel-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.x86_64