I originally posted this question on StackOverflow. Before it was taken down as off topic, the answer and comments were leading to MPM not being loaded
- I tried
sudo apt-get install apache-mpm-preforkbut was given the error:E: Unable to locate package apache-mpm-prefork
Below are all the steps I took today which led to the errors I am experiencing:
- Installing phpmyadmin following this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-16-04
- I got stuck at sudo phpenmod mcrypt and sudo phpenmod mbstring as it was giving me some error
- I then tried to diagnose this problem by creating a php file in var/www/html that simply contained <?php phpinfo(); ?>
- It was here that I saw that apache was not serving the php files as the webpage simply outputed <?php phpinfo(); ?>
- So I tried to follow this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-fix-apache-2-not-executing-php-files/
- However this restarting was not working so I performed sudo service apache2 stop in hope that I could start again
- sudo service apache2 start gives the error:
Job for apache2.service failed. See 'systemctl status apache2.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
Okay so
sudo systemctl status apache2.servicei guess:- apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2)
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
`-forking.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-11-25 09:21:39 PST; 2min 14s ago
Process: 16632 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: Starting web server: apache2 failed!
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: The apache2 configtest failed. ... (warning).
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: Output of config test was:
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: AH00534: apache2: Configuration error: No MPM loaded.
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: Action 'configtest' failed.
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX apache2[16632]: The Apache error log may have more information.
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX systemd[1]: apache2.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.
Nov 25 09:21:39 XXXXXXXXXX systemd[1]: Unit apache2.service entered failed state.
- apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
I tried deleting what I changed in the config file but it still outputs the same
ANY help would be greatly appreciated; I really do not want to have to reinstall apache. Thanks.
Current Config File (without comments)
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER} Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/.load IncludeOptional mods-enabled/.conf
Include ports.conf
Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all denied
AllowOverride None Require all granted
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted
AccessFileName .htaccess
Require all denied
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
