Symptoms
After updating to ea-apache24-2.4.48 you may find that Apache doesn't start, and logs errors such as this:
[log_config:error] [pid 112233:tid 141114189410180] (24)Too many open files:
AH00649: could not open transfer log file /etc/apache2/logs/domlogs/domain.tld.
Description
Updating to ea-apache24-2.4.48 can result in Apache not starting on servers with a lot of domains hosted due to the open files limit being lower than before.
We've opened an internal case for our development team to investigate this further. For reference, the case number is EA-9823. Follow this article to receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product.
Workaround
A patched package has been published to our mirrors at this time with this new package:
ea-apache24-2.4.48-2.2.1
If you are affected by this issue currently, it can be resolved by running a yum update:
/scripts/rpmup