QuiltedAnger Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 This is in the terminal in Linux. It says "apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code." Does anyone know what to do about this?? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/332836-i-get-the-error-message-apache2service-failed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gw1500se Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 You need to look in the apache log for more details. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/332836-i-get-the-error-message-apache2service-failed/#findComment-1663262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 9 hours ago, QuiltedAnger said: This is in the terminal in Linux. It says "apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code." Does anyone know what to do about this?? If this is a fairly current linux distro version that has systemd, then your first step should be to run sudo systemctl status apache2 Probably this will show you the error issues. Most often this will be because you have some configuration file issue, if I were to warrant a guess. Beyond that systemd has also changed much of the old school ways that people look at logs, as well as the log locations. This isn't perfect advice, because it is quite easy to configure apache or php-fpm or other services to put logs in a custom location place where systemd doesn't seem to know how to find them, but the base install and logs can be looked at using journalctl. I tend to use the more verbose --flag syntax, but there are options like -f that do the same thing. I tend to default to using: sudo journalctl -u apache2 --no-pager --follow Note that the systemd service config name includes the .service part, which you can omit or not. Either way will work, but if you have some sort of issue with these commands you can try the full service name (apache2.service) Having the name be apache2 is unusual in my experience, so I guess it depends on your distro. For example in the redhat and related distros (rhel, fedora, centos, alma, rocky) often the use of the alternatives utility is typically used/recommended, and there are other techniques that might be applied so that you don't have wonky service names like apache2 rather than apache or httpd. So it depends on where you got the package from, as some non-default package repos like remi include instructions on how to install groups of packages using a base name to get around package versioning. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/332836-i-get-the-error-message-apache2service-failed/#findComment-1663265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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