Apache confiruation generation failed with empty message.

[fruel-]

This is the first time after the upgrade to Plesk 11 that I try to reconfigure the webserver. Executing httpdmng results always in an empty error message.

System: Plesk 11.0.9 on Ubuntu 10.04

Httpdmng:

# /opt/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-all
2012-09-25T13:37:22+02:00 ERR (3): Apache config (13485730410.75418600) generation failed:

Execution failed.
Command: httpdmng
Arguments: Array
(
[0] => --reconfigure-domains
[1] => example.com
)

Details: Empty error message from utility.

cat /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/panel.log

...
2012-09-25T13:27:06+02:00 ERR (3): Apache config (13485724250.83164700) generation failed:
2012-09-25T13:30:03+02:00 ERR (3): Apache config (13485726030.14623400) generation failed:
2012-09-25T13:37:22+02:00 ERR (3): Apache config (13485730410.75418600) generation failed:

Configuration database (mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa -Be "SELECT * FROM Configurations")

id name file version objectType objectId status description serviceNodeId active
19 server /opt/psa/admin/conf/generated/13485730390.87367900_server.include 13485730390.87367900 server NULL ok NULL 1 true
20 domainVhost 13485730410.75418600 domain 1 error 1 true
21 domainVhostIpDefault 13485730410.75418600 domain 1 error 1 true
22 domainWebmailHorde 13485730410.75418600 domain 1 error 1 true

Email:

Subject: Unable to configure a web server on the host <...>
Unable to generate the web server configuration file on the host <...> because of the following errors:

Please resolve the errors in web server configuration templates and generate the file again.

What errors in the web server configuration templates? I never changed them.

Any idea on how to fix this?

 

[jekyll807]

httpdmng --reconfigure FAILS ERR (3): Apache config generation failed

I am having the same problem.

Just updated from 10.4.4 to 11.0.9 and now the vhosts config files cannot be updated or regenerated.

Always fail with ERR (3): Apache config (13530904540.36973600) generation failed
(with different file number of course)

System CentOS 5.8 (Final)
Panel Version: 11.0.9 Update #26

Running bootstrap repair produces only warning
Passwords for some MySQL users were not upgraded.
All MySQL DB users that may be used by Panel MUST have passwords in new 41-character format in order for Panel to function properly

As part of the bootstrap repair it also tries to do a reconfigure but it fails with the same error

Please help if you found a solution for this!

 

[jekyll807]

SOLVED - apache config reconfig failure

I thought I would save others a ton of grief with this.

If you are getting this, the problem seems to be a conflict between the older 10.4.4 panel configurations and the newer 11.0.9 vhosts configurations.

I found that the new system does not "like" the old version include files in client directories: I cannot confirm becauase there is no useful information in the error logs.

This worked for me though:


## wipe files using xargs ... great if you have large number of files
echo /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/generated/* | xargs rm -f
echo /var/www/vhosts/*/conf/*.include | xargs rm -f

## then run

usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng --reconfigure-all -no-restart

## I use -no-restart becauase we have hundreds of websites on this server ..

I hope this helps someone

 

[Leighmcd]

Answered

I ran into the same issue where I was getting back the error messages unable to configure the server configuration from Plesk but the error field was blank. I did however get one error along the same lines as OP:

httpd: Syntax error on line 210 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 30 of /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/vhosts_bootstrap.conf: Could not open configuration file /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/13485481340.06254200_httpd.include: No such file or directory

The errors started to appear after upgrading from 10.4.4, now currently running 11.0.9 MU34

I tried to run bootstrap 11.0.9 and that would take down our client sites.

I spent a couple hours last night which ended up with my hosting company advising that I need to do a whole server re-install. I tried your method and it works so thanks so much for posting this!