apache not starting

[tezhit]

Hi,

We are having problem in starting apache. Apache service is stopped while restarting it from plesk service management.
Now while starting it agin it is showing me some error..

Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by websrvmng: websrvmng: Service httpd failed to restart

please help me out of this problem

Thank you

 

[faris]

There could be a number of reasons for this.

have a look in in the various files you'll fine in /var/log/httpd/ (e.g. error.log) to see if anything obvious is shown (most "warning"s are not bad. Only actual errors are likely to be problems). Also look in /var/log/messages for anything in there.

Or simply try restaring apache from the command line (e.g. "service httpd restart" if you have red hat/centos type linux) in case something obvious is shown there.

Faris.

 

[tezhit]

Thank you so much Faris

I used service httpd restart
and it showed me errors in vhost.conf file. It was comments in file. I removed comments and it worked fine for me.
Now all sites are on.
but I cannot understand why changes from vhost.conf file was not applying earlier.
I restarted apache server before this also from control panel.

 

[faris]

Confusing things like this can happen from time to time. There is almost always a rational explanation but it is often hard to figure out

 

[faris]

actually.....I think I may know.

Restarting Apache (from anywhere) does not make it look at the vhosts files. You need to use websrvmngr -u -a to do this (then restart apache).

However, if you add a new domain, or do certain other things then this command gets run by Plesk itself. So that may be why you didn't see the problem until now.

Faris.