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I use Ubuntu 16.02. When i try sudo service apache2 restart, it says:

Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Then I type: journalctl -xe, and request:

-- 

-- Unit apache2.service has begun starting up.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]:  * Starting Apache httpd web server apache2

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]:  *

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]:  * The apache2 configtest failed.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: Output of config test was:

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: AH00014: Configuration check failed

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: Action 'configtest' failed.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: The Apache error log may have more information.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox sudo[8171]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

-- Subject: Unit apache2.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit apache2.service has failed.

-- 

-- The result is failed.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Unit entered failed state.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox dhclient[792]: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.56.101 on enp0s8 to 192.168.56.100 port 67 (xid=0x204f076f)

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox dhclient[792]: DHCPACK of 192.168.56.101 from 192.168.56.100

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox NetworkManager[619]:   [1484073189.4253]   address 192.168.56.101

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox NetworkManager[619]:   [1484073189.4260]   plen 24 (255.255.255.0)

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox NetworkManager[619]:   [1484073189.4266]   server identifier 192.168.56.100

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox NetworkManager[619]:   [1484073189.4273]   lease time 1200

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox NetworkManager[619]:   [1484073189.4279] dhcp4 (enp0s8): state changed bound -> bound

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox dbus[590]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...

-- Subject: Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: 

-- 

-- Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has begun starting up.

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox dhclient[792]: bound to 192.168.56.101 -- renewal in 559 seconds.

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox dbus[590]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.

-- Subject: Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has finished start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: 

-- 

-- Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has finished starting up.

-- 

-- The start-up result is done.

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox nm-dispatcher[8205]: req:1 'dhcp4-change' [enp0s8]: new request (1 scripts)

Jan 11 02:33:09 aleksandr-VirtualBox nm-dispatcher[8205]: req:1 'dhcp4-change' [enp0s8]: start running ordered scripts...

And when systemctl status apache2.service It`s reaqest:

* apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled)

  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d

           `-apache2-systemd.conf

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-01-11 02:30:46 +08; 33min ago

     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

  Process: 8023 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 2236 ExecReload=/etc/init.d/apache2 reload (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 8177 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)



Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: AH00014: Configuration check failed

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: Action 'configtest' failed.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: The Apache error log may have more information.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Unit entered failed state.

Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

What is wrong? Where is an interrupt? Please help!

There are two errors:

1. For some reason your /etc/apache2/envvars is missing:

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  from journalctl -xe:

  
  
  

  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  ...        
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  

  
  


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  from systemctl status apache2.service:

  
  
  

  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 49: /etc/apache2/envvars: envvars: not found
  
  

  
  

In my system this file has next permissions:

$ ls -l /etc/apache2/envvars



-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1782 мар 19  2016 envvars

And its content ($ cat /etc/apache2/envvars) is:

# envvars - default environment variables for apache2ctl



# this won't be correct after changing uid

unset HOME



# for supporting multiple apache2 instances

if [ "${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}" != "${APACHE_CONFDIR}" ] ; then

        SUFFIX="-${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}"

else

        SUFFIX=

fi



# Since there is no sane way to get the parsed apache2 config in scripts, some

# settings are defined via environment variables and then used in apache2ctl,

# /etc/init.d/apache2, /etc/logrotate.d/apache2, etc.

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data

export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

# temporary state file location. This might be changed to /run in Wheezy+1

export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2/apache2$SUFFIX.pid

export APACHE_RUN_DIR=/var/run/apache2$SUFFIX

export APACHE_LOCK_DIR=/var/lock/apache2$SUFFIX

# Only /var/log/apache2 is handled by /etc/logrotate.d/apache2.

export APACHE_LOG_DIR=/var/log/apache2$SUFFIX



## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav

export LANG=C

## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale instead:

#. /etc/default/locale



export LANG



## The command to get the status for 'apache2ctl status'.

## Some packages providing 'www-browser' need '--dump' instead of '-dump'.

#export APACHE_LYNX='www-browser -dump'



## If you need a higher file descriptor limit, uncomment and adjust the

## following line (default is 8192):

#APACHE_ULIMIT_MAX_FILES='ulimit -n 65536'



## If you would like to pass arguments to the web server, add them below

## to the APACHE_ARGUMENTS environment.

#export APACHE_ARGUMENTS=''



## Enable the debug mode for maintainer scripts.

## This will produce a verbose output on package installations of web server mod                                               ules and web application

## installations which interact with Apache

#export APACHE2_MAINTSCRIPT_DEBUG=1

You can create it manually: sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars, paste above content inside, save ctrl+o and exit ctrl+x.

2. In your system, the folder /etc/apache2/logs also missing:

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  from journalctl -xe:

  
  
  

  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log
  
  

  
  


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  from systemctl status apache2.service:

  
  
  

  Jan 11 02:30:46 aleksandr-VirtualBox apache2[8177]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/logs/' for main error log
  
  

  
  

This is not the default log folder, it is defined in your custom configuration, and must be created:

$ sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/logs

I deleted .conf files in sites-available and did not delete the link files in sites- enabled .

Now I deleted those all files in sites-enabled

restarted apache2 server (sudo service apache2 restart)

worked for me

hope this might help someone :)

Try these commands:

sudo a2dismod mpm_event

sudo a2enmod mpm_prefork

Then restart apache2 service.

I had the same problem. I got the same error with sudo service apache2 restart and ran sudo systemctl status apache2.service and the red line was Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.

Solution

run the bellow command:

sudo apache2ctl configtest

It'll check for errors (Syntax errors I think) and then you can debug the error.