Apache just stopped and wont restart, red-hat 7.3 apache 1.3.9

[ProgAmmer]

Hi, this morning apache was stop on my developpement server. I am the only one that got acces to that machine, its on an intranet so its sertenly havent been hacked. So apache is stopped and

/usr/sbin/apachectl start
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
Syntax OK

i also checked /var/log/httpd/error_log and i havent found nothing helpfull there.

i dont know what to do... i event dont know where to start.

i havent done any configuration one my server till weeks i even tryed to reboot it. (guess ist desease bill gave me)

 

[sleipnir214]

I would start by tailing /var/log/httpd/error_log in the background, then trying to start apache.

That way, you can see what errors are generated at the time Apache starts.

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[ProgAmmer]

i emptyed

/var/log/httpd/error_log

then tried to start apache. But error_log still contains nothing! is tehere an other error_log??

 

[sleipnir214]

I hope that you kept the information from error_log somewhere.

It is very much within the realm of possibility that Apache is logging elsewhere. How is your installation configured?

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[ProgAmmer]

ok.... i have managed to ged the error it was an other error_log (var/

http://www/logs/error_log)

and here what i get

fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open error log file /var/

http://www/vhost/hermespharma.com/logs/error_log.

I TINK I AM GONA CRY...

(for now i have 3 error_log files)

/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/

http://www/logs/error_log

/var/

http://www/vhost/hermespharma.com/logs/error_log

 

[sleipnir214]

You can have myriad log files with Apache. I have separate error and access logfiles for each virtual server on the system. Examine httpd.conf.

If the logfile /var/

http://www/vhost/hermespharma.com/logs/error_log

does not exist, then Apache will try to create it. If it cannot, it is because the directory /var/

http://www/vhost/hermespharma.com/logs/

does not exist or because Apache does not write permissions to the directory.

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[ProgAmmer]

ok folks... here is your chance to laught at me.

many years ago in a galaxy far far away, someone mouved the website directory, but havent moved the location of the logs.

those days i had archived and compresed those directory, so whitout those log files apache stoped. ould could it survive a few days whitout is log files... no one would ever know...