Errors with certificates will often cause silent failures. Running apachectl -S and making sure that all TLS vhosts have a valid certificate and key is usually the fastest approach here.
On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 11:51, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: > Then something is probably wrong with the contents of one of your SSL > certificates. Make sure they are formatted correctly. > Check if any virtualhost has a separate error log. > > - Y > > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:03 AM jnil...@jala.com <jnil...@jala.com> > wrote: > >> The tail end of /var/log/apache2/error_log gives: >> >> [Fri May 27 00:02:10.914649 2022] [ssl:warn] [pid 1562] AH01873: Init: >> Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache] >> [Fri May 27 00:02:10.939405 2022] [:emerg] [pid 1562] AH00020: >> Configuration Failed, exiting >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> AH00016: Configuration Failed >> >> There's nothing for May 30. I have updated ssl certificates recently. >> >> JMN >> >> On 30 May 2022, at 7:01, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: >> >> systemd doesn't know to look in the HTTPD log file. What does that log >> say? >> Likely located in /var/log/apache2/ >> >> - Y >> >> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 9:58 AM jnil...@jala.com <jnil...@jala.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I recently rebooted the server and started apache only to get a failure. >>> Here's the diagnosis; I'm not sure what to make of it. >>> >>> systemctl status apache2.service >>> *●* apache2.service - The Apache Webserver >>> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; >>> vendor preset: disabled) >>> Active: *failed* (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-05-30 06:53:28 >>> PDT; 23s ago >>> Process: 23499 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start_apache2 -DSYSTEMD >>> -DFOREGROUND -k start *(code=exited, status=1/*> >>> Main PID: 23499 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) >>> Status: "Reading configuration..." >>> >>> May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: Starting The Apache Webserver... >>> May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: *apache2.service: Main process >>> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE* >>> May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: *apache2.service: Failed with result >>> 'exit-code'.* >>> May 30 06:53:28 server systemd[1]: *Failed to start The Apache >>> Webserver.* >>> >> >>
