Apache issue

Yogesh Singh

• July 22, 2024 19:47

Facing issues with Apache as it goes down every now and then. The CloudLinux support identified that the problem is related to "httpd.service: Can't open PID file /var/run/apache2/httpd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory" and the suggested solution:

Incorrect permissions for the /run/apache2 directory:

[root@on ~]# ls -la /run/apache2
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  3 root   nobody  100 Jul 21 18:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 root   root   2920 Jul 21 18:56 ..
srwx------  1 nobody root      0 Jul 21 18:47 cgid_sock.300232
drwx------  2 nobody nobody   40 Jul 11 06:25 htcacheclean
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      7 Jul 21 18:47 httpd.pid <---

I have changed the owner and group for the /run/apache2 directory and all subdirectories in it:

[root@on ~]# chown -R nobody:nobody /run/apache2

and after this reboot httpd and run systemctl daemon-reload:

[root@on ~]# systemctl daemon-reload
[root@on ~]# systemctl restart httpd

Please note that this problem was directly related to Apache. In this case, it is EasyApache4.

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  Yogesh Singh

  • July 22, 2024 19:48

  By the way, following the solution fixed the issue but it came back again within 24 hours.

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  Yogesh Singh

  • July 22, 2024 19:50

  He suggested that httpd.pid should be nobody|nobody but it keeps resetting to root.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 24, 2024 18:38

  Hey there!  On a test machine, /run/apache2 is always root:nobody ownership and 710 permissions.  Inside that directory, the httpd.pid file is always 644 root:root, so that seems to be working as normal.

  When Apache restarts, what do you see in the log on the server?

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