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mathar

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 2

[solved] Apache won't start

Hi,
I installed Apache for the first time, but when I do:

systemctl start httpd.service

I get this error:

Job for httpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status httpd.service' and 'journalctl -n' for details.

when I do this:

journalctl -n

I get this:

Oct 28 15:02:31  systemd[1]: Starting Apache Web Server...
Oct 28 15:02:32  systemd[1]: PID file /run/httpd/httpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
Oct 28 15:02:32  systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Web Server.
Oct 28 15:02:32  systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state

I tried changing apache config files, but I get this error every time I try to start apache...
How can I fix this?

Last edited by mathar (2012-10-29 13:40:38)

gsgleason

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Registered: 2012-10-08

Posts: 71

Re: [solved] Apache won't start

I just tried installing apache and was able to start it fine. 

Does /run exist?

$ ls -ld /run
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 720 Oct 28 15:01 /run

$ mount |grep /run
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)

mathar

Member

Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] Apache won't start

My whole system went crazy for some reason, so I did fresh install and now it's working fine. /run did exist on that system, so I don't know where the problem was...
Anyway thanks for help:).

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: [solved] Apache won't start

You could have just manually created /run/httpd/httpd.pid

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